Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The beginning of a blog …
As this will be my 1st ever blog and my 1st entry, let me start by introducing myself and then providing a brief overview of what this blog will be about.
My name is David Foster and I’m in charge of the Memofix Data Recovery Lab. I’ve been in the data recovery business for over 20 years. In the late 1980s I started a company that repaired hard drives. But within 7 years as hard drives were becoming disposable items, we sold the business and I thought my hard learned skills may never be put to use again. But of course the real value was now in the data which was only accessible if the drive could be resurrected and I soon started as a data recovery technician at a small data recovery company in Toronto. These were the early days of data recovery companies and we “wrote the book” on data recovery in many ways. With an initial team of 10 employees this company grew very quickly and was soon considered the most technically capable data recovery company in the world. Along the way I became the VP of Lab Operations and we opened 7 fully functional data recovery labs including labs in Canada, the U.S. and the Netherlands. As all good things do, it came to an end when the company was bought by a large hard drive manufacturer.
About a year after that I found my way to a warm new home here at Memofix and have gotten myself nicely settled in. Memofix is a fantastic storage centric company managed by real people with real integrity and I have been tasked to revamp the data recovery division into a real force. Memofix has been doing data recovery for quite some time now, but has largely provided it as a service to their existing client base as a result of client requests. But now we are launching a new phase of data recovery services aimed at all of Canada. Our goal is to provide superior data recovery services at reasonable prices with outstanding customer service for all types of media and operating systems. I am extremely excited to be able to take my vision of what a superb quality service offering should be and mold Memofix Data Recovery Services into just such an elite service.
Over the next months and years you will see some big changes at Memofix and many you won’t. I’m sure I will use this blog to boast about many of them. But besides the opportunity to promote Memofix, I really hope to use this blog to educate folks in all areas of data recovery. I hope to explain some of the techniques we use, discuss operating systems and hard drives, give advise on do it yourself techniques, maybe gossip a little about industry players, just about anything to do with computers and data and storage and of course hard drives. Perhaps you have a topic or question you would like answered. My email is [email protected] and I welcome your feedback.