Good for Small Busineses! – I'm a small business owner that deals with computers on a daily basis to keep inventory, stock, invoices and other things. I normally back up my database every week, but for the last couple of weeks,I've been neglecting that little bit... and now I regret it. We had a virus wipe out almost everything on my "server" (it's what I call the PC that stores everything that we access). Nothing we did could access the database. And since I neglected to back up the database in almost a month, restroing it from a previous one was not really a viable option. Neither was keeping my employees overnight for the next week redoing inventory. I looked for a simpler solution and found Data Recovery Services.



Granted, I'm not the smartest person when it comes to these machines, so I asked around. I was told that "Data Recovery" companies weren't 100 percent reliable, but they do work. I got more information from some techies, and they said there were softwares out that that could do the job, but I'd be paying through the roof. And that's what I didn't want to do. So I got my trusty neighbor (14 year old kid) to research some of the companies out here. They found a company in Portland, Data Recovery services. I called them. I spoke with some guy who seemed to be speaking way over my head, so my kid neighbor spoke to him. It was greek to me.



I told them my problem, and they said they could help. I needed to bring my 'drive' to them, and they would take a look at it, and give me a quote. Feeling that I had nothing to lose since it was gone already, the kid and I took my drive to them. They would call me the next day (a saturday) and let me know what they can do. I waited. And waited. Tuesday came around, and I called them. They ended up calling my neighbor kid instead of me... which I find a bit disturbing, but entirely my fault. They told me what they could recover, and how much it would cost me.



Sadly, it would cost me $300.00, which isn't really an exhuberant amount of money, (explained to me by my neighbor kid that it was really cheap than to have to do the work myself and hire all kinds of people to help). I paid the money to get it done, and got my drive back the next day. Everything was there. All my invoices, all my work, and even things i thought i deleted. They cleaned the viruses out, and I'm happy to say it only took me a few hours to put the new invoices and stock in. (while PC was down).



It saved me days of work and thousands of dollars just by calling them. (And my neighbor kid) Thanks for all your help.