Vogon has extensive experience of these problems and can prepare your tape so that further data loss is prevented and an optimal recovery is achieved. Fire or extreme heat will cause data loss and might result in a failure of the tape mechanism. Any attempt to read from the tape will fail and might cause the tape to snap or become wound inside the drive mechanism. Our painstaking approach and expertise have recovered data from tapes damaged by even severe fires. At Vogon we will read all unaffected areas of the tape and then, by using our in-house software tools or by writing bespoke code, we will restore the files from your tape.
Media errors can result from drive problems, wear and tear and dirt within the drive.
You know that you wrote several gigabytes of data to this tape just a few days earlier. This can be an alignment problem, data corruption, or perhaps someone carried out a quick erase, then hid their mistake and did not tell you. Vogons' specialised hardware will bypass the problem to recover your data. You have just started a backup and then realised that you are overwriting the only copy of your business-critical data. Your drive will no longer permit access to the original data even though it is still there.