Tour of Disklabs Data Recovery

Introduction

Last week we took the opportunity to tour the Disklabs data recovery facilities, located just outside Birmingham (UK). Disklabs specialise in all sorts of data recovery services, including hard drives, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, flash media, sim cards and virtually any media that stores some sort of information.


Recovering data using the techniques in the hard drive data recovery guide are one thing, some of the procedures performed whilst touring the building seemed on a different level. Disk labs have some very advanced facilities, including forensic tools, a clean area and a massive fibredrive server.

The Tour

The tour started with the brief overview of the facility and a chat with one of the directors of Disklabs. The company operating, security and safety procedures were explained in great detail, as well as brushing up on in-depth technical knowledge of how a hard drive works.

After browsing the main office and reading through the list of accreditations on the wall, we took a couple of photos of the non-geeky part of the company.