Data recovery naturally is quite complicated and even with the best minds working it, data recovery, isn’t always possible and data encryption makes it worse.
The fascination with data encryption today is quite understandable as there are so many people up to no good and hell-bent on gaining access to your confidential information.
As great as data encryption is, you should consider not encrypting all your data. High risk and sensitive data definitely, but with everything else, it isn’t really necessary.
Typically, when the loss of encrypted data occurs probably due to damage to your device or something, the data recovery process is known to be near impossible.
Data encryption generally converts you encrypted data into code that is only retrievable if you have appropriate access like with a password or code.
Let us say your hard drive gets damaged and you lose data because the key file that was used to create the encryption and its password is now destroyed, recovering your data becomes near impossible
If your hard drive is self-encrypting and decrypting, you face the same problem. If said specialized hard drive gets damaged, it would be impossible to recover lost data
Especially when using self-encrypted devices, you are advised to consider the below options to ensure that you do not lose your data permanently:
Backing up all your relevant data as regularly as possible. With this, you would not require a data recovery process in the first place. This is the easiest and safest way to keep your data safe
Ensuring that you have a copy of your key file saved somewhere secure. You can always fall back to this when your device gets damaged to make the data recovery process easier as it could be impossible in most cases.
Considering using an actual encryption software rather than a self-encrypting device. It is easier to work data recovery when the encryption was done with software that when it was done with a self-encrypting device.
Keep copies of all critical usernames and passwords. Like with having a backup copy of your data and a copy of your key file; this makes the process way easier.
As always, no matter what the reason is for your data loss or if you employed encryption or not, engaging the services of a data recovery expertise is your best bet at successfully recovering all your lost data
We at Data Recovery 47 are experts at recovering encrypted data and are at your service to help you out the best way we can.
