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About Access Forensics

Headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, Access Forensics services law firms and private practice attorneys throughout the country. Access' Senior Forensic Examiner, Josh Restivo, has been an active Information Security and Computer Forensics professional for over a decade. Working with a group of dedicated professionals located around the country, Access employs the latest technology and legal guidelines to ensure proper collection of your data.

Forensic Expertise

Criminal matters involving electronic evidence are Access' primary focus. We take pride in educating our clients on the often complex technical aspects involved in such undertakings and aim to clearly communicate our findings in all reports.

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Data Recovery

Sound Familiar?

It’s 3am and your scheduled maintenance hasn’t gone so well. Your backup solution is toast – if it works at all, it’s going to take 12 hours to get any results. We’ve been there and we can help. Power your system down (pull the plug!) and call Access Forensics 24/7 for remote or on-site assistance with critical data recovery. If you’re within 60 miles of the St. Louis Arch, we can have someone on-site within 2 hours. If you’re anywhere else in the country, our premium data recovery service will have a data recovery engineer in the air and on their way within 10 hours.

Or, perhaps your company’s lone server has just crashed, effectively putting you out of business. Whether we’re working in large data centers or underneath the company break table, we can often bring order to the shattered fragments of your data nightmare.

Regardless of your situation or the type of hardware involved, call us sooner rather than later. Much of the damage encountered in data recovery operations is caused by well-meaning admins trying to resurrect their own systems. Whether the drive damage is physical (clicking or scraping) or logical (no funny noises but lots of unfunny data), it is typically compounded for every second the machine is left running. TURN IT OFF AND CALL NOW! There is no charge for phone consultation.

RAID Arrays

The corporate world has long subsisted on RAID-based solutions. More recently, even consumer-level devices have begun to employ RAID configurations for data redundancy. While RAID is a beneficial technology, it possesses the ability to instantaneously corrupt mountains of critical data. RAID recovery is almost never simple or quick but it can, in many cases, be achieved. Access Forensics has successfully extracted complete data from arrays which were 2/3 degraded.

If you’re experiencing a RAID-related failure, power off your RAID device immediately by pulling the power cord (do NOT perform an OS shutdown!). Number each drive with a marker or label according to the numbering scheme present on the drive chassis (they usually start at Drive 0). Now call us and we’ll take care of the rest!