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Ontrack Data Recovery(TM) Partners with Geek Squad(R) and Best Buy to Provide Advanced Data Recovery Diagnostic Tools.


Leading 24-7 Computer Support Task Force and North America's Number-One Electronics Retailer Tap Data Recovery Expert to Ensure Highest Level of Recovery Success for Customers Experiencing Data Loss

MINNEAPOLIS -- Ontrack Data Recovery[TM], the industry's leading data recovery provider, today announced it entered into multi-year agreement with Geek Squad The Geek Squad is a subsidiary of the Best Buy Company and is based in Richfield, Minnesota [1]. Originally founded in 1994 by Robert Stephens, it offers various computer-related services and accessories for residential and commercial clients.  and Best Buy Co., Inc. to provide training and custom diagnostic tools for data recovery in all Best Buy stores with Geek Squad locations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and Canada.

Per the agreement, Geek Squad will deploy Ontrack's customized assessment tool, BARDS BARDS Budget Analysis Rate Development System  (Basic Assessment and Recovery Diagnostic System), built to Geek Squad specifications, enterprise-wide for diagnoses of customer problems and recommendations for data recovery. Using BARDS, Geek Squad agents will be able to more efficiently and accurately assess the health of a customer's hard drive and determine what data recovery options are available.

Ontrack also will supply Geek Squad with its highly popular, do-it-yourself recovery tool, EasyRecovery[TM], as well as ongoing training and maintenance.

"Geek Squad is recognized for its technical expertise and excellent customer service," said Jim Reinert, senior director of Software and Services for Ontrack Data Recovery. "Through this multi-year partnership, Ontrack is committed to enhancing these qualities by offering the most complete and leading edge data recovery solutions available. With BARDS and EasyRecovery, Geek Squad personnel can be confident they are providing the highest possible level of service for their customers."

"In every data loss situation, there is a client plagued with fears of irreparable ir·rep·a·ra·ble  
adj.
Impossible to repair, rectify, or amend: irreparable harm; irreparable damages.



[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin
 data loss and related consequences," said Robert Stephens This article is about is about the English actor. For other uses, see Robert Stephens (disambiguation).

Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre.
, founder of Geek Squad. "Ontrack's data-loss expertise and tools give our repair specialists more resources for improved efficiency and effectiveness when time and critical data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider.  is of the essence."

With a wide range of data recovery services and software solutions, Ontrack Data Recovery helps both corporate customers as well as individual end users to protect, save and recover important data. Ontrack Data Recovery offers everything from do-it-yourself software to customized service solutions allowing recovery anywhere, anytime from virtually any operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
, storage or media type, regardless of the cause for data loss. The company offers data recovery service in 13 languages in more than 21 countries worldwide.

For further information about data recovery, please call Ontrack at 1-800-872-2599 or visit the Web site at www.ontrack.com.

About Geek Squad

Geek Squad 24-Hour Computer Support Task Force[R] focuses solely on computer and network support. We offer flat-rate pricing for carry-in, on-site or remote computer support service for everything from setups and installs to upgrades. Be it Windows or Macintosh, hardware and/or software, we've got you covered. Whether your laptop Same as laptop computer.

laptop - portable computer
 is dead, your network is down, your hard drive is crashed, your printer won't print, or you just need to get onto the Internet, we can help you. We provide our services wherever and whenever you need them - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

About Ontrack Data Recovery

Ontrack Data Recovery (www.ontrack.com) is the largest, most experienced and technologically advanced provider of data recovery products and services worldwide. Ontrack is able to recover lost or corrupted data from virtually all operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap.  and types of storage devices through its do-it-yourself, remote and in-lab capabilities, using its hundreds of proprietary tools and techniques. Ontrack Data Recovery is a brand name of Kroll Ontrack Inc., a technology services subsidiary of Kroll Inc., the global risk consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting firm

business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a
.
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