Refracture (otherwise known as Paul Dobson) is one of the fastest rising talents in breaks and bass driven music. Renowned for his energetic and powerful dancefloor material, Refract
With an ever increasing amount of new and fresh material, Paul was, to put it mildly, extremely worried and anxious when he switched his computer on one day last week to find that the 750GB Western Digital hard disk containing all his latest music & projects was no longer accessible.ure’s unique sound and energy has won approval from the likes of The Crystal Method, Far Too Loud, Matt Darey, Beatman & Ludmilla, as well as on going support from the BBC, Ministry Of Sound and the national press. Also a talented remixer, Refracture has also produced remixes of Radiohead, Deadmau5, Lady Gaga tracks.
Paul phoned various data recovery companies for help and advice. One of that companies he called was Datlabs (a trading name of Data Clinic Ltd) , who were able to correctly diagnose what the problem was over the telephone, and advise the course of action necessary to take. Paul carefully packaged up his hard drive which was courier collected from his house and delivered to Datlabs the following day.
Paul’s drive was examined in the data recovery lab and put onto specialist equipment that was able to successfully read the data from his damaged hard drive. The Datlabs lab technic
ians were then able to reconstruct this data back into the files and folders as they originally were before Paul’s hard disk started having problems. This data was recovered to a new external hard drive and sent out by courier to arrive with Paul the following day.
On his Refracture Facebook page, Paul writes: “These guys saved my music and kept Refracture up and running! Last week my hard drive went down…I hadnt backed up some of my best and newest material. Needless to say I was devatated. Gave these guys a call, very friendly and kept me updated throughout. Whats more they were loving the breaks! If any of you guys have an hd problem I couldnt higher recommend datlabs.co.uk”
Tech Stuff: Paul’s
hard drive was suffering from degraded media – a very common problem. To explain further: All the data stored on a hard disk is held magnetically as a series of 0′s and 1′s. These 0′s and 1′s are grouped together in containers called sectors. There are literally hundreds of millions of sectors on a typical hard disk drive. Sometimes, sectors can become ‘bad’ and the hard disk loses the ability to read and write from them. This results in the data contained in these ‘bad’ sectors becoming inaccessible and effectively lost.