Question

Our Client, a renowned trading company, suffered a sudden, devastating power outage that caused their server to cease functioning. The company took the hard-drive to a local computer repair company that was unable to read the corrupt drive. At this point, the company contacted you, a forensics consultant, to recover the information. What actions will you take

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

I will consult the following strategies:

Step 1: Being a discerning consultant I should be knowing what exactly has caused the drive to get corrupted.

Step 2: After examining the current state of the hard drive I will explain the actual problem to the client in a very lucid and eloquent manner whether it is feasible to retrieve the lost data or it is beyond repair.

Step 3: Identify a solution to the problem with things at my disposal(finding a right tool).

Step 4: apply the solution found to retrieve the data from the hard drive.

Step 5: submitting the retrieved data from the corrupt drive to the customer and advocating them the preventive measures for future reference.

The above five steps will work perfectly to resolve the issue faced if followed with great care and being heedful of the situation at hand.