*10. A photo is worth a thousand words* – A customer reformatted an SD cardby accident, erasing one particularly important photo. The photo in questionwas from a recent trip, where the customer helped capture a breath-takingscenic photo for a stranger, who forgot to bring a camera. The customerpromised to e-mail the photo when the customer returned home. Kroll Ontrackhelped them keep their word.**

*9. A game of cat and USB *– When a family cat decided to replace a game ofcat and mouse by playing with the AC power cord, it ended poorly. The cordwas attached to an external USB HDD, which of course fell, renderinghousehold financial information and memories unreadable.**

*8. Look out below *– Somehow a laptop was dropped from the second floor ofa business operation. Sent initially to another data recovery company, thedata was deemed unrecoverable. A second opinion yielded different, morepromising results.**

*7. It’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a computer? *– A businessman runninglate for a meeting made the mistake of placing his laptop on the roof of hiscar and drove off in rush. As he turned a corner, the laptop flew throughthe air, crashing into a wall. Ontrack Data Recovery engineers were able torepair the broken drive and recover the individual’s laptop data.**

*6. Boxing ring* – As a result of a brawl between two colleagues, a serverfell off a server rack in a server room. Lucky for them, the businesscritical information was recovered in full.**

*5. Speed bump* – While riding on his motorbike, a photographer’s bikebasket containing his camera came loose. The camera flew out and broke,leaving the memory card drowning in a puddle.**

*4. Upset stomach* – After a house pet got into a piece of defrosting meaton a kitchen countertop, the pet became sick on none other than the family’scomputer. The dinner remnants seeped into the laptop’s hard drive, ruiningthe family’s computer as well as the dinner to be.**

*3. Hold on to your horses* – A horse riding tour ended abruptly with afall. The rider was wearing a camera at the time of the accident, and whilethe rider got a clean bill of health, the memory card did not. The fileswere corrupted and could not be uploaded to the owner’s computer. After twofailed attempts, Kroll Ontrack proved to be the last hope.**

*2. Sunken drive* – A hard drive plummeted 200 feet to the ocean’s floor. Itwas discovered six months later and was sent to Kroll Ontrack’s cleanroom,where 99 per cent of the data was imaged and recovered.**

*1. Law trouble* – As legal officials entered the home of a criminalsuspect, the individual in question threw a laptop containing potentiallypertinent evidence out the window of a 12-story building. As a result, thelaptop smashed into many pieces on the pavement. Investigators turned toKroll Ontrack to recover the photos, videos and e-mails.