Can you do data recovery on a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) or TIVO?

This question comes about quite frequently in our field.  Data recovery or data recovery services are primarly used by the the general computer industry but with technology expanding into every area of our lives we find hard disk drives are being used to maximize storage in many other components.

The DVR or TIVO’s do have hard disk drives and Disaster Recovery Group does receive these units in to have data recovery performed.  The manner that the data recovery is performed is very similair as to a computer hard disk data recovery with one exception.  There are no DVD’s burned since the files within that system is proprietary to the device.  When our data recovery experts receive TIVO or DVR hard drives we will extract the data and replicate that recovered data onto a replacement hard disk drive.  The hard disk engineers know that many users have special memories or programming on their digital recorders and they are relieved to know that the data recovery process is identical as to when we perform a computer hard disk recovery with any other business or personal data.  You data is ALL that Matters!