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The posting below is on our forum. I thought some of you out there may want to know about some of the lesser known experiences and where failures sometimes happen:

Originally Posted by angrysmurf

I have created a more comprehensive blog regarding the poor treatment of Fields Group Ltd customers and the loss of their data* I have tried to keep it factual and accurate drawing upon individual reports* companies house* credit checking agencies etc.

http://www.data-recovery-blog.co.uk/blog

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Christmas is a weird time of year for us. For our run of the mill data recovery* Christmas is relatively quite on the business front* but much busier on the personal front. It seems to go crazy just after christmas day* (we can only assume from people deleting photo's taken on their new cameras).

We have decided to take a good break over Christmas* but as sure as eggs is eggs* you can be certain that an hour after we close the offices and labs* we will get a large corporate or governmental ...

I am quite shocked how some people deal with clients. It seems bizarre to me* one of the owners of Disklabs* that on a daily basis* we get clients phoning us up to ask about other companies. There are a few specific companies that keep coming up time and time again. I will leave you to work out which ones they are* (check the forum under 'Problem Data Recovery Companies').

We then have 'rants' from other people that claim to run huge data recovery organisations* but upon investigation* ...

I thought the following is quite a useful post. If you want to see more comments* please go to the forum at www.disklabs.com

Originally Posted by elbitrevnoc

DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT use this company.

Please avoid going anywhere near the services of an organisation trading as Rapid-Data Recovery and/or Fields Data Recovery - both organisations registered with a Bridgend address. I fear that I have become a victim of what appears to be a simple 'scam' and* having done some on-line

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On average* 70% of re-sold hard-drives and memory cards contain pornographic material according to research carried out on 1*000 hard-drives over the course of a year by Disklabs Data Recovery and Computer Forensics.

In addition* the company recently purchased a selection of storage media comprising of 100 hard-disk drives and 50 memory cards and proceeded to process a sample batch to test what data was still retrievable from them. The results were worrying as documents ...