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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Becoming a data recovery expert

A data recovery expert can help your company in retrieving files and valuable information from your damaged hard drive or other computer equipment. Data loss is a problem that everyone always has to contend with. Data loss can either come suddenly or may be the result of accidental operation. Data loss can come in many forms. It can come from corrupted files as a result of equipment design flaws or equipment malfunction. It can also come from human carelessness and negligence.


A computer is a sensitive machine. A sudden bum can sometimes be enough to damage and result in loss of data. And it is too valuable equipment not to use for day to day business. Data loss along with computer breakdown can be very disruptive to both the individual and to businesses. A computer and data recovery expert can help you in trying to remedy and help you prevent further data loss and damage by offering you these tips.


One very useful tip in preventing data loss is by making use of effective back up systems installed in your computer. Whether you are using a single user notebook or desktop computer or running a corporate server, always backing up all your data is essential to preventing data loss. Backing up your data means making a copy of valuable files on a different and separate media from the main file set in current use. This way, if your main file breaks down and become corrupted or inaccessible, you still have another set of back up files that you can access anytime.


Once you have this back up in use, try to practice restoring from your back up files even before you have a need for it. Testing your back up system will make you more prepared and sure that your back up files can be accessed easily when the need arises. And before you try to upgrade any part of your computer system, you have to make sure that you have a complete back up and restore procedure in operation. Try also to document your system procedure by listing all your computer applications and check if you are backing up on a regular basis all the files being used on each of them. You can also try to organize all of your software and hardware documents to have them ready in case needed by a data recovery expert for inspection.


You can also do some preventive physical maintenance on all your equipment that may help in preventing data loss. Try to keep your equipment under favorable environmental conditions. Be always aware of the temperature and humidity condition of the room where your computer system is located. If possible, make use of air conditioning to ensure that your computer is always under a favorable environment. Try also to install power surge protection on your computer system to avoid sudden electrical bursts that may harm and damage valuable data on your computer.


Try also to regularly clean your computer and remove accumulated dust inside your system that can harm your computer in time if left to settle for long periods. Always make it a point to also clean tape and optical drives by using special cleaning devices. Data loss and computer problems can be avoided by following preventive measures to ensure that you have a system in place that will help remedy potential loss of data. These tips from a data recovery expert would surely be useful will ensure that such problems would not be as damaging to you.

2 comments:

miranon said...

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Unknown said...

Thank you for a good post and useful advices. I would try to follow them. Here I found an article about creating RAID-arrays using RAIDXpert. Quite interesting, as for me.