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Inside the world of data retrieval

CBS News recently visited the Secaucus, N.J., recovery offices of Kroll, a company that works to recover information from hard-drives. Kroll technicians have been called upon to help in some of the U.S.'s most devastating tragedies. They recovered 99 percent of the data from a nearly melted drive blown into the atmosphere after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which sat at the bottom of a Texas lake for six months. They were also successful after 9/11. Keep clicking for a look at some of the tech they use and the hard drives they work to recover.

An example of a hard drive damaged during when Superstorm Sandy lashed the Northeast. Technicians at Krolls labs in Secaucus, New Jersey, were asked to recover data from it.

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