2009-10-20

How to prevent data loss





How to prevent data loss

Viruses and hardware failure can make a lot data loss on your computer. This will give you some simple steps to do in preventing data loss an keep your data safety.

1- Keep your data organized. Keeping the information on your computer organized in specific known folders will be a great help when it comes to backing up your information.

2- Don't leave your important files always on your desktop, put aa organized copy of your important files on another partition of your hard disk.

3- Back up your data regularly on CD or DVD, This way, you have a copy available if your system becomes infected, or the data become inaccessible.

4- Use power surge protectors. A power surge, either from the power company or a lightning storm, is one of the most common occurrences that can damage your data and potentially cause a hard drive failure.

5- Make sure you have the latest antivirus updates.

6- Be aware of using infected flash memory disks and you have to learn exactly how to use safely. USB starage devices can harm your computer data if they got an autorun virus

How to be a data Recovery Expert


How to be a Data Recovery Expert


Here I'am going to show you how to be a data recovery exppert, and I will teach you through simple steps what data racovery experts do.

Data you must collect:

1- You must identify how the data got lost by asking your client, there is many reasons of data loss.

2- When the client asks for your data recovery service, tell him not to write any farther data on the damaged storage media. The more data added to the damaged storage media after the data loss the more difficult the data recovery process.

3- Try to know the place of the lost data, the name of the folder, the data capacity.

4- You have to ask about the kind of the lost files ( doc, pdf, mp3 .... )

5- Don't try to recover a movies file or sound files because the data recovery process takes long time, so tell your client that your going to recover only the important lost files (Other files like movies or entertainment can be re-downloaded, so don't waste your time)

6- Do Not be so optimistic when talking to the client, just tell him that are going to do the data recovery job, because there is a lot reasons of failure.

Is it hardware or software problem:

1- Connect the damaged unit to your computer

2- If it working good and your system can read the storage unit, you probeply will perform a software process.

3- If the unit is not working or dead of power, so you will need to perform a hardware test before doing the software data recovery process.

2009-10-17

Hard Disk Data Recovery Tips

Data Recovery Tips

Data recovery becomes necessary when your hard drive, memory card or USB flash card fail, and there is no backup available. This article covers the necessary steps and precautions during the data recovery process.

Before attempting the recovery process, you must be aware that the data cannot always be retrieved. In case of a physical failure of a hard disk such as the infamous "click of death" situation, you won't be able to do much good to the hard drive except bring it to the recovery experts

Now you shoud Consider that:
- data recovery process is a lengthy one. You'll need plenty of time and enough space on a working.
- Before you begin, make sure that you restrict any write operations onto the damaged disk.
- If you don't have data recovery already installed on your computer, don't save or install the data recovery product onto the corrupted drive.
- Try to identify the reason of data loss, inorder to select the proper recovery software.

2009-10-16

What is Data Loss

Data Loss

Data loss is the opposite of data recovery, it's the case when the has become inaccessible by the normal ways.

causes of data loss:

- Data could be lost due to unintentional file deletion, drive re-format and drive partitioning.

- Corrupted system files may also indirectly affect your data by making it inaccessible.

- System conflict as a result of application or new hardware device installation is commonly a main cause of data losses

- Malicious-ware, like viruses, can spread causing partial or complete damage to your valuable data.

- Other defects, power surge, over heat, water etc will cause mechanical or electronic damage to data media storage. As a result, normal access to such damaged media is hopeless.

- Data recovery services appear the to be the last resort to get it back. However, you must understand that data recovery attempt will never guaranteed that all lost data will be recoverable by 100%.

What is Data Recovery

Data Recovery

Data recovery is the process of retrieving data from damaged, or inaccessible storage media when it cannot be accessed normally.

If the data on the storage media become inaccessible using normal methods, then the process of getting the data back to accessible again is called Data Recovery.

The data recovery has become one of the most important jobs in the information technology field.