{"id":84214,"date":"2026-05-20T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/?p=84214"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:31:53","slug":"drivesavers-featured-in-the-new-yorker-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/it-it\/press-coverage\/drivesavers-featured-in-the-new-yorker-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"DriveSavers protagonista su The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_section blog-header-top-padding vc_custom_1742716771897 wpex-vc-full-width-section wpex-vc-full-width-section--centered wpex-relative wpex-vc_section-has-fill wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1737675721786 wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t   <style>\n        .single-post-title {\n            display: none;\n        }\n    ul.meta {\n       display:none;\n        }\n\n    <\/style>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column presscoverage-radius vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1738287789313\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module carolinamoscosoimage\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/forum\/2010101913687\/when-your-devices-fritz-and-your-digital-life-is-lost-what-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"2000\" height=\"1511\" src=\"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2.jpg\" class=\"vcex-image-img wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"DriveSavers featured on local NPR station, KQED\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2-1536x1160.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DS_The-New-Yorker-2-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/div><figcaption class=\"vcex-image-caption wpex-mt-10\">Illustration by Carolina Moscoso<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#ffffff;letter-spacing:var(--wpex-tracking-tight);line-height:var(--wpex-leading-snug);\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><em>When precious files are lost, data recovery experts begin their necromancy.<\/em> By Julian Lucas<\/p>\n<p>Julian Lucas, a staff writer for The New Yorker, visited the DriveSavers lab in Novato, California, to speak with engineers and company leaders about the evolving world of data recovery.<\/p>\n<p>In the feature, Lucas examines how our devices have become vaults for memory, identity, creativity, and legacy. Through extraordinary recovery stories \u2014 from flood-damaged laptops and ransomware attacks to lost family archives and the final messages of loved ones \u2014 he reveals the deeply human side of recovering data and the emotional weight behind every case.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a powerful New Yorker feature that transforms data recovery into a broader story about memory, loss, resilience, and the fragile nature of our digital lives.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full New Yorker article below.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_section vc_custom_1761159273585 wpex-vc-full-width-section wpex-vc-full-width-section--centered wpex-relative wpex-vc_section-has-fill wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff!important;\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 40px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6a145da906682{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:35px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6a145da906682{font-size:25px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6a145da906682{font-size:25px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6a145da906682{font-size:25px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6a145da906682{font-size:25px;}}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-div vcex_6a145da906682\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">When Your Digital Life <strong><span style=\"color: #e31f26\">Vanishes<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/span><\/div><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 32px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1776873699791 wpex-relative wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\" style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1760029818507\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1779291347580\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><em>A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 20px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>The man had been slumped over his laptop for a week by the time his body was discovered. His deliquescent tissue had seeped under the keys, short-circuiting the motherboard. It was a killing from beyond the grave, flesh and blood\u2019s revenge on silicon. Yet digital death differs, crucially, from the genuine article. Sometimes, with luck, it can be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>It happens to the best of us\u2014the farmer who plowed over his smartphone, the biologist with a flooded lab, the professional photographer whose dog chewed through his SD card just after an important shoot. Losing files is inevitable in our paperless, data-driven, device-mediated world, notwithstanding its fanciful promises of cloud-based immortality.<\/p>\n<p>I used to count myself one of the prepared. Little escapes my archival dragnet: I keep every phone I\u2019ve ever owned in a labelled shoebox, and the archived \u201csouls\u201d of long-defunct computers on a PC called thoth, for the Egyptian god who records the weighing of hearts on the journey to the afterlife. Then, six years ago, I set my iPhone down on the edge of my bathroom sink, and it fell, shattering on the tiles.<\/p>\n<p>The spiderwebbed screen bled colors, and the keypad flashed, as though ghostly fingers were trying to guess my passcode. I winced at the expense, but the intangible costs emerged more slowly. I realized that the phone had stopped synching with my iCloud, and, when I brought it to a repair shop, they couldn\u2019t fix it. Among the likely casualties were some of the last texts and voice mails I\u2019d received from my father, who\u2019d died of heart failure not long before.<\/p>\n<p>It was from him that I\u2019d learned to protect my files in the first place. Growing up, I practically lived in his home recording studio, a starship\u2019s bridge of mixers and monitors where he set aside a corner for my experiments with code. A musician who\u2019d played with Miles Davis, and written and produced for Madonna, he was also a data hoarder, and he had spent a decade digitizing his extensive record collection for a custom music server that he dubbed soulbro.<\/p>\n<p>My father taught me to burn disks, to back up files, and to discharge static electricity before handling a computer\u2019s delicate innards. He had a surgically implanted defibrillator and liked to call himself a cyborg\u2014a boast laced with irony, because the device periodically misfired, delivering shocks that could knock him to the ground. He spent his final weeks in an I.C.U., which appeared to me like a nightmare double of his studio, its monitors transcribing the rhythms of his own waning heart.<\/p>\n<p>The studio took years to clear out. I made disk images of the half-dozen computers, which were subsequently dismantled. Then, this fall, my mother found two hard drives we\u2019d overlooked, which could have been either mine or his. Both failed to register when I plugged them into my computer; one made an ominous grinding noise. Still, I couldn\u2019t bring myself to let them go.<\/p>\n<p>For thousands of data-loss victims, the last resort is a recovery service called DriveSavers. It\u2019s a half hour from San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge, in the balmy, scenic suburb of Novato. The boxy, low-rise office overlooks a verdant wetland frequented by otters and egrets. Visiting in January, I felt that I\u2019d arrived in hard-disk heaven.<\/p>\n<p>I was greeted by Sarah Farrell and Mike Cobb, two directors of the company. Farrell, a teacherly woman with blond hair and a beekeeping hobby, oversees business development but used to be an engineer. \u201cIn the lab, I just assume everything has been in the toilet,\u201d she told me. \u201cDuring covid, I can\u2019t even tell you what people spilled on their MacBooks.\u201d Cobb, who runs engineering, is a genial man with lively blue eyes, and once saved a computer tower from a burrowing squirrel: \u201cHe peed right on the power supply.\u201d Cutesy anecdotes alternated with triumphs and tragedies\u2014a school district rescued from a ransomware gang, an iPad salvaged from a plane crash. \u201cThey made me too sad,\u201d Farrell said of the worst cases. \u201cI had to be, like, \u2018Symptoms, no story,\u2019 or I\u2019d never be able to go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their handiwork was on display in the lobby\u2019s Museum of Bizarre Diskasters, an exhibition of silicon carnage. \u201cI remember opening this one out on the deck,\u201d Cobb said of an ancient Toshiba laptop, which had burned shut in a fire. \u201cIt was like an oyster.\u201d One successfully recovered smartphone had been shredded by a snowblower. Another had been sliced in two by a monorail, like a magician\u2019s assistant. The company regularly buys brand-new devices and tears them to pieces. \u201cIt\u2019s like the jaws of life,\u201d Cobb said. \u201cIf a car gets absolutely demolished, you need to know what to cut and what not to cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DriveSavers receives some twenty thousand inquiries each month. It has saved data for government agencies, multinational corporations, and more than a few celebrities, whose autographed portraits beamed from the lobby walls. Sidney Poitier recovered a draft of his memoir through the company\u2019s good offices; Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian, a phone that fell into a pool. Data loss has been the digital age\u2019s great equalizer: What else could bring together such disparate figures as Willie Nelson, Buzz Aldrin, Gonzo the Muppet, and Gerald Ford?<\/p>\n<p>The memorabilia dated back to the eighties. Back then, hard drives stored so little and cost so much that they were generally more valuable than the files they contained; one forty-megabyte drive on display in the lobby originally retailed for twenty thousand dollars. Advances in storage density, and the digitization of everything from filing taxes to laying out magazines, changed this calculus. \u201cIt was like two crossing lines,\u201d Jay Hagan, who co-founded DriveSavers, later told me. \u201cThe cost of drives was going down, and the value of data was going up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, the company emerged from the crash of a hard-drive manufacturer, Jasmine Technologies, where Hagan met his co-founder, Scott Gaidano. In 1989, they established DriveSavers as a repair service for their former employer\u2019s abandoned customers, whom they quickly realized were more concerned about their files than their hardware. \u201cI came up with this theorem,\u201d Steve Burgess, a data-recovery pioneer who sold his own company to the duo, told me. \u201cThe value of a person\u2019s data is negatively correlated with whether or not they have it. Once they have it, it really wasn\u2019t worth anything. But, if they don\u2019t have it, it\u2019s worth an arm and a leg and their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recovering data from an iPhone or a hard drive can set you back three thousand dollars, and from an enterprise server, six figures. Although DriveSavers has a \u201cno data, no charge\u201d policy for most customers, it gets accused of overcharging by scrappier competitors, who tend to attribute the company\u2019s success to attention-grabbing stunts. (One rival has mocked DriveSavers\u2019 engineers as \u201cclowns in spacesuits,\u201d alluding to the protective gear they wear in ads.) But Farrell insists that the fees reflect care and determination. She once spent a week recovering an iPad for a couple with an autistic child who was so attached to a farming simulator that he couldn\u2019t calm down without it. \u201cThey still invite me to barbecues,\u201d she said. There have also been litigants who\u2019ve lost their evidence; scientists, their research; the bereaved, their dearly departed\u2019s final words.<\/p>\n<p>DriveSavers\u2019 own death has been foretold many times. The cloud was supposed to destroy them; before that, it was commercial backup services, solid-state drives (SSDs), and encrypted smartphone hardware. Still, people keep finding ways to imperil their files, which grow ever more numerous and irreplaceable. Our precarious datasphere extends from cryptocurrency to telemedicine; now, with the advent of virtual companions, it\u2019s even possible to lose the love of your life to a glitch.<\/p>\n<p>Technological progress may be increasing our exposure. A.I. agents are becoming notorious for accidental deletions, while the proliferation of data centers has wildly inflated the cost of storage. And, despite exponential growth in capacity, the average hard drive\u2019s life span remains just under seven years. Considering the hundreds of zettabytes of data estimated to exist in the world, it\u2019s as though a million Libraries of Alexandria were saved from annihilation solely by hamsters on wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is why I found it so soothing to be among the Diskasters, whose data, after all, had survived. I\u2019d sent my phone ahead of me, and the tour had kindled a cautious optimism about its fate. One vitrine contained a decapitated Mac PowerBook 100, which had spent three days underwater; next to it, for emphasis, a taxidermied piranha bared its teeth. All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion. Why should mine be any different?<\/p>\n<p>The PowerBook had belonged to a couple of jugglers, Tony Duncan and Jaki Reis, who nearly lost it on a cruise down the Amazon in March, 1993. They were performers on the Ocean Princess, where they juggled swords and torches after dinner. One afternoon, they were practicing as the Princess left Bel\u00e9m, in northeastern Brazil, and promptly hit a sunken wreck. They helped the crew evacuate the ship and were safe in a hotel by nightfall. But they neglected to retrieve their PowerBook, which held their contacts, promotional materials, and financial records. \u201cEverything was on that computer,\u201d Reis told me. \u201cI couldn\u2019t leave it behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reis talked her way onto a crew member\u2019s unofficial salvage expedition. Back on the Princess, whose lower decks had sunk below the waterline, she waded down a corridor with a flashlight in her mouth, trying not to think about piranhas. She found the laptop fully submerged and assumed that it couldn\u2019t be resuscitated but brought it back with her anyway. \u201cI\u2019m an Apple person,\u201d she explained. Four repair services turned down the case. Then Duncan saw an ad for DriveSavers: \u201cThey were, like, \u2018Doesn\u2019t seem likely, but what the hell?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, they succeeded, and began exhibiting the PowerBook in an aquarium at the annual Macworld trade show. \u201cWe should have negotiated for dividends,\u201d Duncan said.<\/p>\n<p>Many such resurrections take place in DriveSavers\u2019 \u201cclean room,\u201d an E.R.-like space equipped with fans and hepa filters which reminded me of where the Oompa Loompas operate Wonkavision. Before entering, I walked across an adhesive mat that tore the dust from my soles, then donned a mask, gloves, and white coveralls. The room had about eighty computers, which, because of the controlled environment, could safely run in their birthday suits, their bare motherboards mounted to the walls. Monitors showed digits scrolling in columns as repaired hard-disk drives (HDDs) were imaged; others waited in red and blue bins. Phil Reynolds, an engineer, showed me to a table where a four-terabyte drive lay open. \u201cYou got a firm grip?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>It was about the size of a paperback novel, with smooth, reflective disks nestled inside. HDDs store data on swiftly spinning \u201cplatters,\u201d usually made of glass or aluminum. Embedded within them are microscopic grains of a magnetic alloy, whose polarities are flipped by \u201cread-write heads\u201d that float just nanometres from the surface. Every year, the grains get smaller, and the means of zapping them more sophisticated; in March, Seagate, one of the leading hard-drive manufacturers, announced a forty-four terabyte drive, its largest ever\u2014a milestone made possible by a technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording, which uses a laser to heat each grain for a nanosecond.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds turned a flashlight on the platters, which reflected our masked faces. A single drive might have two, five, or even ten spinning in parallel, with a stack of heads flitting between them. Because of the speed of revolution, a single grain of dust can be enough to strip the magnetic film and obliterate the underlying data. Another threat is corrosion, usually from immersion in liquid: Reis and Duncan\u2019s hard-drive platters were cleansed with a deionized solution, then swapped into a replacement drive. \u201cAll kinds of catastrophic things can happen,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n<p>My apprenticeship began with a simple disassembly, a typical exercise for new employees. After a brief demonstration, Reynolds handed me pliers and a tiny screwdriver; I struggled to remove one of the actuator magnets, which held so firmly to its opposite that I feared smashing it into the platters. Similarly tricky was the printed circuit board, or PCB, which precisely choreographs the drive\u2019s machinery. Each is particular to its model, Reynolds explained: \u201cWithout this chip, you\u2019re not ever going to get that drive to work again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sourcing parts is half the battle. Outside the clean room, I spoke with Pamela Rainger, who manages DriveSavers\u2019 inventory. \u201cThese are our donor bodies,\u201d she said with a sweeping gesture. \u201cThey\u2019ve all been tested and are ready to give up their lives.\u201d Behind her, more than thirty thousand drives were shelved in antistatic bags on metal racks. It\u2019s not always enough to simply buy a replacement; because of a complex supply chain and the relentless pace of innovation, the donor drive should, ideally, have been made in the same factory, even in the same week, as the recipient. DriveSavers retains a personal shopper in Shenzhen to track down elusive models. For obsolete equipment, they turn to eBay and specialized venders; once, Rainger had to find a match for a forty-year-old drive from an embroidery factory, which had operated a robotic arm. The trickiest category might be novelty items, such as the SpongeBob disposable camera one family had used to document a vacation. \u201cThere are actually several SpongeBob disposable cameras,\u201d she said. \u201cI had to find the exact same one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smart devices add yet another layer of complexity. Downstairs from the clean room, I visited the Flash Physical Department, where a handful of engineers hunched over soldering irons, microscopes, and assorted diagnostic tools. I was greeted by Matt Burger, the head of the department, a friendly, bearish young man with glasses and a mop of brown hair, who was putting a thumb drive through an X-ray machine. \u201cSomebody had it in their laptop and dropped it on its side,\u201d he explained. The monitor showed a slightly bent rectangle covered with dots and lines, which didn\u2019t look so bad to me. I listened for a prognosis, hoping that it might have some relevance to my own wounded machines. Then he spotted a faint crack through the tiny region of the drive that held the memory chip. \u201cThis is going to be a no-recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Flash memory is used in thumb drives, smartphones, newer laptops, and SSDs. The technology exploits a phenomenon known as \u201cquantum tunnelling\u201d to trap electrons in floating-gate transistors, like the genies imprisoned by King Solomon. Because they have no moving parts, flash chips are generally considered to be more stable than HDDs. But their design can also complicate data recovery. Many devices integrate flash storage into their main logic boards and cryptographically pair it with other components for security, a practice popularized by Apple. Saving them can involve transplanting not one but several chips. Burger explained, \u201cYou have to have it all working as one cohesive thing. No funny business.\u201d The dead man\u2019s laptop, which arrived still soaked in bodily fluids, had required engineers to remove and clean nearly every chip on the logic board before it could be resurrected, much as Egyptian embalmers preserved the stomach, the liver, the lungs, and other organs so that the deceased could function in the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>The arcane art that makes all this possible is called \u201cmicrosoldering\u201d\u2014essentially, soldering under a microscope. Burger sat me down for a tutorial at an empty workstation, where a damaged iPhone board had been readied for my inexpert hands. It was an L-shaped thing about the size of my thumb and forefinger; in one of its corners, a chip no bigger than a peppercorn had slightly cracked. \u201cSee how it\u2019s impacted there?\u201d Burger asked as I adjusted the microscope. \u201cYou can see the actual glass through the top coating.\u201d Burger gave me tweezers and heat-resistant gloves; though my hands felt steady, under the microscope they shook like mad. I was like a giant medical student with a tremor, about to perform surgery on a Who out of Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n<p>Burger tasked me with swapping out the chip. First, I used a syringe to apply flux, an antioxidant that helps solder stick. Next, I heated the chip with a hot-air gun until the tiny grid of metal balls connecting it to the board melted. \u201cGet your tweezers in there,\u201d Burger encouraged; at last, it came loose. Putting in the new chip was more difficult. I initially struggled to stencil new solder balls onto its underside\u2014\u201cHe\u2019s going to break it,\u201d Farrell warned\u2014but managed to finish the procedure, though I inadvertently fused a few resistors in the process. \u201cHave I been fired at this point?\u201d I asked. \u201cEverybody practices,\u201d Burger diplomatically replied. \u201cYou could maybe even still salvage data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final stage of a recovery takes place in the Logical Department, a warren of computer towers where engineers analyze the recovered disk images. One of them, Will DeLisi, looked startled as he turned away from a screenful of digits: \u201cThey said \u2018perfect copy,\u2019 but it\u2019s gibberish, plain and simple.\u201d When files have been deleted, corrupted, or overwritten, it\u2019s his job to reconstruct them; today, he was searching for pictures that had mysteriously vanished. \u201cThis file ends mid-sector,\u201d he said, adding that cheap thumb-drive firmware was probably to blame. \u201cThe controllers just spit up on top of the file system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Files can disappear in any number of ways, only some of which are irreversible. On many systems, deleting them merely removes their addresses from a registry, freeing the space to be overwritten. (This is one reason that the F.B.I. was able to recover deleted e-mails from Hillary Clinton\u2019s private server.) Similarly, corruption or physical damage might destroy a file\u2019s header, which contains its identifying metadata, while leaving other parts of it untouched. In other words, there are file traces everywhere, like so many ghosts in a vast bardo, which can sometimes be brought back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Logical data recovery is the most D.I.Y.-friendly kind. A YouTuber called Babylonian, who goes to extreme lengths to solve \u201ctrivial mysteries,\u201d got nearly seven million views for a video of him \u201crescuing\u201d a fan\u2019s cherished Pok\u00e9mon, tragically scrambled in a Game Boy save-cheating attempt fifteen years earlier. (The fan, now an adult, gets emotional when the Pok\u00e9mon, a Blastoise, is finally retrieved.) But at larger scales it becomes dizzyingly complex. This is especially true when it comes to ransomware, a form of digital extortion that involves encrypting files and threatening to destroy or publish them.<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware recoveries are DriveSavers\u2019 biggest growth area. The day I visited, engineers were racing to unscramble sixty HDDs belonging to a health-care nonprofit. Time was of the essence, but the attackers, too, had been up against the clock. Ransomware attackers usually have limited time before they\u2019re detected. The slowness of encryption forces them to triage. For instance, they might use scatter algorithms that encrypt every nth megabyte, or delete backups without \u201czeroing out\u201d\u2014overwriting with zeroes\u2014the underlying files. All this gives recovery specialists an opening. They can write case-specific code to piece together files from partially destroyed backups, or even infer missing data by identifying patterns of encryption. Ideally, the data can be retrieved without a ransom payment, which, in the case of large organizations, might run into the millions.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon has exploded in recent years, with small businesses and municipalities particularly at risk. (Last July, St. Paul, Minnesota, suffered an attack that required the deployment of a National Guard cybersecurity team.) A franchise model allows enterprising hackers to license malware from syndicates. \u201cLiterally anyone can sign on as an affiliate through the dark web,\u201d Andy Maus, who oversees DriveSavers\u2019 ransomware recoveries, explained. A.I. has exacerbated the situation, he went on: \u201cYou can take an I.T. professional who\u2019s relatively unsophisticated, and suddenly, they can mount a sophisticated attack.\u201d In 2023, the company worked on fewer than fifty ransomware recoveries; last year, the total was nearly three hundred.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, even victims who pay their ransoms need data recovery, when the decryptors they \u201cbuy\u201d malfunction. Their attackers, anxious to maintain their credibility, sometimes even join them in searching for a fix: \u201cI\u2019ve heard they have excellent customer service,\u201d Farrell said. It\u2019s one of many reasons that DriveSavers\u2019 C.E.O., Alex Hagan\u2014who took over from Jay, his father, in 2023\u2014believes that his industry isn\u2019t going anywhere. \u201cTechnology will continue to improve, but as long as humans are involved, there\u2019s room for error,\u201d he told me. \u201cPeople continue to break stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The more we entrust to computers, the more they become mirrors of our vulnerability. Each month, DriveSavers receives calls from people facing the loss of their memories, their livelihoods, their businesses, their cryptocurrency wallets. For two decades, the most desperate were fielded by Kelly Chessen, the company\u2019s first \u201cdata crisis counselor,\u201d who came to the job from a suicide-prevention hotline. \u201cBy the time folks got to us, they\u2019d usually been through several levels of computer work,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThere was that element of \u2018You\u2019re my last chance!\u2019 \u201d She talked down I.T. guys sobbing about fumbled company servers and entrepreneurs screaming from the wreckage of their burned-down stores; one woman called because her boss had shot his computer, though, luckily, he\u2019d missed the hard drive. When recoveries failed, Chessen helped callers process their emotions\u2014and often bore the brunt of them: \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many times I got the whole \u2018Well, they got Hillary\u2019s e-mails back!\u2019 \u201d Because there are no limits on call time, the transition from customer service to therapy was often imperceptible. \u201cI\u2019d tell them, \u2018This is a grieving process,\u2019 and you could hear them go, \u2018Huh,\u2019 \u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s not something they\u2019re used to hearing from a tech company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rarely is data loss more of an occasion for grief than in the aftermath of disasters. The National Transportation Safety Board investigates accidents across the United States. Every year, its vehicle-recorder division processes more than five hundred pieces of evidence from wrecked trains, cars, ships, and planes\u2014not only black boxes but also personal devices. In 2013, photos and a takeoff video from deceased passengers\u2019 phones helped establish that a small plane in Soldotna, Alaska, had crashed because of improperly balanced baggage. Two years later, it salvaged a voyage-data recorder from the wreck of the S.S. El Faro, a cargo ship that sailed into a hurricane and sank with all hands aboard. \u201cThese are sometimes the last records, the last words, the last moments of someone\u2019s life,\u201d Ben Hsu, who leads the division, told me. \u201cBut our work is technical. The job is to help determine what happened and prevent it from happening again.\u201d Sometimes data extracted from personal devices is shared with victims\u2019 loved ones, offering an opportunity for closure that is all the more significant in the absence of physical remains.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Jeff Wong had just returned from scattering his father\u2019s ashes in Hawaii when a glow appeared over the mountains near his home in Altadena. He and his family evacuated\u2014and, the next morning, awoke to the news that their home had been consumed by the Eaton Fire. A fire safe in his office seemed to be intact, though; a few weeks later, he enlisted safecrackers to open it. Nearly everything inside had turned to powder, including a dozen storage drives with digitized family photos. But two inner, portable safes had survived, though the drives they contained had partially melted. \u201cYou could see the components with plastic fused into them,\u201d he told me. \u201cBut they were still shaped like drives, so I had some hope.\u201d After five months, DriveSavers recovered the contents of two of them, with artifacts of the damage still visible in certain images. Missing, however, were most photos of his father\u2019s sojourns across the Pacific after emigrating from China in the nineteen-forties: \u201cThey must have been on another drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not people get their files back, they tend to emerge from the experience of data loss at least slightly changed. Kevin Bewersdorf left New York City for the Catskills in 2016. A filmmaker and visual artist, he yearned for a more grounded life, which he found in the rural town of New Kingston. He embarked on a new career as a full-time contractor and handyman, jobs whose patient intimacy fostered a deep love of the place and its people. \u201cEvery day, some little beautiful thing will happen on the job sites\u2014the way the light is shining or a person who stops by,\u201d he said. He made a daily practice of filming such moments, which he saved to an external drive. As years passed, he realized that a film was taking shape.<\/p>\n<p>In November, 2023, Bewersdorf was transferring footage in his blue easy chair when inspiration struck. He reached for a nearby notebook, but his arm caught the cable linking his MacBook to the drive, which crashed to the ground. When he plugged it back in, the drive didn\u2019t even register. He tried to stay calm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pride myself on shunning preciousness,\u201d Bewersdorf told me. \u201c \u2018Oh, my movie, I was gonna make this cool movie\u2019\u2014who cares? There\u2019s a lot going on in the world.\u201d After trying a few home remedies from Google and Reddit, he resolved to move on. Yet sadness gnawed at him, especially after an elderly neighbor he\u2019d often filmed passed away. A friend recommended DriveSavers, and after agonizing over the price tag he\u2019d sent the drive in. The files were back by Christmas, and last summer \u201cNew Kingston\u201d premi\u00e8red at the Rockaway Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had more reverence for what I was doing, which is part of the value of death,\u201d Bewersdorf told me. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, these \u2018files\u2019\u2014what are they, even? Electrons vibrating in some container. But if they can die, if we can lose them in the way that we can lose the information that makes up a person, then they live.\u201d It\u2019s a truth reflected by the very language we use to describe digital storage, he went on: \u201cThey say you \u2018save\u2019 a file, like it\u2019s going to Heaven\u2014the idea of salvation is woven into it. I don\u2019t know what digital Hell would be. I\u2019m just saying that digital Heaven is where all the files are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet salvation is never guaranteed. In the summer of 1995, Peter Sacks, then a professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, was nearly done with a book he\u2019d been writing for the past seven years. He always drafted in longhand but had recently embraced digital revision, typing out his manuscript on a Kaypro word processor while staying with a friend on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. When the time came to return to Baltimore, he didn\u2019t know what to do with his boxes of handwritten materials. Too polite to impose them on his host, he took them to the landfill, then set out for Logan International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a sense of unburdening,\u201d he told me at his studio. \u201cBut I also didn\u2019t realize the fragility of the medium I was trusting.\u201d The book was on two floppy disks, which he put in a tray at the security checkpoint; upon his arrival in Baltimore, he slotted them into the Kaypro and found that they could no longer be read. There might still have been a chance to save the data were it not for a technical misstep. \u201cYou had an option to reformat,\u201d he explained. \u201cI erased the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sacks enlisted a friend to search the landfill, and he made a series of calls to the university\u2019s I.T. department. But the trash had been turned over, and the specialists said that nothing could be done. The book\u2019s loss seemed to him strangely foretold by its subject: the emergence of modernism in art and literature against the backdrop of mechanization, and the fragmentation of nineteenth-century notions of the poetic \u201cI.\u201d Now it was Sacks himself whose subjectivity had been shattered. \u201cIt was a sense of falling and never really hitting bottom,\u201d he recalled. \u201cIn some ways, I still haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He fell into a depression and largely stopped writing; although he continued composing poetry and occasional essays, he would never again publish a book-length work of prose. During a residency in Marfa, Texas, he entered a period of \u201cmute wordlessness,\u201d taking landscape photos and covering them with lines of Wite-Out. \u201cI was working through the grief of having something disappear,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that erasure was also opening up a new space that hadn\u2019t existed, and that became the field into which I moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sacks is now a highly regarded artist. The walls of his studio were covered with his vibrant, densely collaged paintings. A triptych called \u201cParadiso\u201d showed a white expanse traversed by ribbons of color, so layered with pigment, textiles, scraps of verse, and found objects that it was almost barnacled. \u201cI\u2019m trying to make something \u2018digital\u2019 in the sense of your fingers,\u201d he said, inviting me to touch the work. \u201cThe materials are things that seem to have been worn, torn, burned, and have a duration.\u201d And the paintings began, in part, as a meditation on erasure\u2014a rebuke, of sorts, to a digital regime that had abandoned writing\u2019s tactility.<\/p>\n<p>If he still had the erased floppies, he\u2019d probably incorporate them into a work as a memento mori, he told me. I asked whether he\u2019d even want the book recovered, were such a thing possible. \u201cBring Eurydice back for real?\u201d he replied. \u201cAbsolutely. I\u2019m at peace with it, but not that much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before I left DriveSavers, my iPhone was brought out in a little red bin, like a patient on a gurney, or a body in a drawer at a morgue. It was pronounced unrecoverable. The engineers had managed to revive it, but it wouldn\u2019t accept the passcode I\u2019d given them, though I felt certain I\u2019d remembered it correctly. Nevertheless, I declined to use the company\u2019s solid-state shredder, which extrudes a kind of silicon confetti; to me, its gears were the crocodile jaws of the Egyptian goddess Ammit, who eats the hearts of the damned.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, DriveSavers called about those two hard drives I\u2019d found, which I\u2019d also sent them. One had suffered a fatal head crash, but the other merely had a failed control board and had soon been spun up again. The company sent me a flash drive with its data, and I plugged it in with nervous anticipation\u2014might it contain some unfinished work of my father\u2019s? Perhaps I\u2019d find the jazz opera he\u2019d wanted to write about Frederick Bruce Thomas, a Black \u00e9migr\u00e9 from rural Mississippi who\u2019d opened a legendary night club in tsarist Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the recovered hard drive was mine. I found instant-messenger logs from high school, alternately mortifying and endearing, and various coding projects, including my browser-based version of the ancient Egyptian board game Senet. (Some things never change.) But there were only taunting flashes of the stories and journal entries I remembered writing; in what felt like a prank played by the ghost of my adolescence, I couldn\u2019t guess the password to a locked file saved as \u201cThoughts.doc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had everything else been on the other drive? Or had I simply imagined all these precious virtual talismans, my father\u2019s and my own? The cascade of disappointments caused me to doubt my own recollections, as though my brain were only a bad pressing of some lost digital master. It also brought back the memory of my first data-loss experience.<\/p>\n<p>I was fourteen when my computer crashed in a botched upgrade. The games I\u2019d been coding were gone, as was the scenery I\u2019d designed for Microsoft Flight Simulator. I was inconsolable. My father, though already in pajamas, put on his blue bathrobe and hastened to the studio to operate. He disassembled the machine, which he\u2019d also built, while I hovered nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery operation stretched into the wee hours. He swapped the drive into another computer, which he used to analyze the corruption. Ultimately, he concluded that the files had been overwritten by Windows Vista\u2014an operating system so buggy that it was nicknamed the Visaster. He broke the news with a sad smile and a line from \u201cThe Lion King,\u201d delivered by Scar: \u201cLife\u2019s not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told me a story about his own father, who\u2019d left when he was young. They were more or less estranged but met occasionally to pretend otherwise. Once, my grandfather announced that he\u2019d found a roll of film with the only extant footage of my father\u2019s childhood. He invited him over to screen it, hoping, perhaps, to mend through nostalgia a relationship that had never been whole. But the tape had aged so badly that it disintegrated in the projector, along with their illusory reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I was horrified. A child of the early nineties, whose first, second, and third everythings had been meticulously committed to camcorder, I could hardly imagine such a bonfire of beginnings or see that the story was an heirloom infinitely more valuable than the footage it concerned. Now I knew otherwise. It would have been nice to have the voice mails, the diaries, the unfinished music. But some records are most revealing when they\u2019re zeroed out.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 20px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;font-size:14px;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Published in the print edition of the April 27, 2026, issue, with the headline \u201cResurrection Hardware.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 20px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"vcex-multi-buttons wpex-flex wpex-flex-wrap wpex-items-center wpex-gap-10 wpex-justify-center\"><a 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