
The data is most often salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), USB flash drives, magnetic tapes, CDs, DVDs, RAID subsystems, and other electronic devices. In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

( April 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite this article from a descriptive, neutral point of view, and remove advice or instruction. This article is written like a manual or guidebook.
