How a Hospitality Company Recovered 5 Years of Overwritten Tally Data

Imagine how challenging it would be to run a successful hotel business if you suddenly lost five years’ worth of important financial data. That is exactly what happened to one of our clients in the hospitality sector.

Their Tally database, which had records from 2020 to September 2025, was erased. It was a huge setback. The company’s financial operations slowed down. The management put off making decisions. They couldn’t match up the accounts. It seemed like the whole financial structure of the business had fallen apart.

It isn’t just about missing numbers when a company loses five years’ worth of business data. It also affects day-to-day operations, hinders collaboration, and worst of all, it can create blind spots and result in loss of customer trust.

Challenge Faced by the Client

The crisis started when the company’s Tally software stopped working. What seemed like a minor problem turned into a nightmare. After looking into it, they found out that the Tally data from the previous five years had been lost. Everything was gone—from records of daily expenses to long-term tracking of finances.

The effect was huge. The billing process was stuck. Settlements with vendors couldn’t move forward. There were problems with payrolls and financial reports. Management had a hard time keeping things running without live data. The loss was much more than just files; it messed up the whole financial operation.

After facing disappointment at the hands of local vendors and realizing the risks associated with local data recovery service providers, the client got in contact with Stellar and the very next day, reached our nearest data recovery center.

Drive Specifications

Device Type: 2.5” Internal HDD

Capacity: 1 TB

Interface: SATA 6 Gbps

Data at Risk: Accounting, Inventory, and Invoicing Data

Stellar’s Data Recovery Approach to Recover Lost Tally Data

Stellar Data Recovery’s technicians inspected the media (1 TB internal hard disk drive) using proprietary software and found that most of the Tally files were unusable. Many of the records had been overwritten, and the drive kept showing errors.

The size of most of the files had been reduced to the order of KBs due to overwriting. Stellar’s HDD data recovery experts then proceeded with the recovery process.

• Our technicians used powerful, specialized tools to scan the drive and checked for lost data paths. But there were no traces of lost or deleted files.
• We were able to manually extract lost directories, but the files inside were severely corrupted and unreadable.
• We proceeded to remove the corrupted parts from the damaged files.
• Our team of engineers at Stellar Data Recovery – Gurugram then reconstructed the Tally data.

The Result and Client’s Feedback

We were able to successfully retrieve five years’ worth of Tally data. After carefully verifying the recovered data, the client was happily relieved and shared this testimonial thanking our staff and appreciating our promptness.

Wrap Up

Losing financial data like accounting logs and invoices is a nightmare every business wants to avoid. But it happens, as this hospitality company recently found out. But they made the right choice by contacting Stellar Data Recovery and were able to get back five years’ worth of financial records that had been lost.

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