The Zip disk technology
has become a legacy format in recent years as flash memory and external drives
became popular. That said, there are still calls for Zip disk data recovery
services for retrieving documents from old unusable disks. This article gives a
synopsis of what software and technical options are available.
The old Zip disk media
format was definitely more durable and resilient to dust and accidental knocks
than their predecessor, the floppy disk. However, they are still prone to
accidental file deletion, power spikes and mechanical faults.
You should first
consider the possibility of the reader device being at fault. You could test
that it works properly by reading/writing from another disk. Alternatively, try
reading your Zip disk in a friends Zip reader (if available).
One piece of good news
about this legacy media format is that there is still data recovery software
available for retrieving documents off of a formatted/corrupted disk and
getting back deleted files.
The bad news is that Zip disk data recovery software won't work at
all if there are mechanical faults (no recovery software ever does) and that
these tools can only be used with the Iomega Zip file system format (i.e. they
will not work with a FAT32 hard drive).
The two provisos for
trying this software is to not use them if you hear grinding or rattling noises
from your disk or reader as these are good indicators of physical faults. In
this case, a PC repair shop or specialist data recovery expert should be
contacted. Secondly, any tool you use should be a read-only application, which
merely copies/clones data off of the disk, instead of extracting files (which
is prone to error).
In most scenarios
though, you may require disk data recovery experts (there are several online)
to attempt the disk repairs and mechanical data recovery for you. The majority
operate by allowing you post in the disk to their service and they will do an
initial diagnosis to give you a valuation of the recovery costs.
Check out the Computer Maintenance Software blog for
articles on computer repairs and software reviews.
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