Monday 13 July 2009

How Data and Information Gets Lost and How To Recovery It

Author: Jacob Luis

Your observation of hazard and the fact of hazard are generally two diverse things. For instance, the system glitches and computer viruses more likely to cause data loss, while viruses cause poor system performance and they are not very likely to cause data loss whereas system glitches result into data loss in most of the cases. Backing up data on a regular basis, either to local hard drive or online storage system, is the best bet. It surely helps you to effectively handle data loss situations. But if no proper or complete backup exists, data recovery software is required to retrieve missing, lost or inaccessible data.

Hard Drive and System Issues
This is quite interesting thing that you can easily blame your system for the data loss and not so quick to blame yourself. In fact human error is a bigger factor of data loss than you would like to admit. In order to prevent software and hardware issues, you should use power backup and surge protector to keep the power steady and clean. File system corruption, hard drive crash, read/write head failure, virus infection, operating system malfunction, hard drive formatting and accidental deletion are some major cause of data loss. In all such cases, Hard Drive Recovery comes for your rescue.

Panic is an Aspect of Data Loss
User mistake is the major cause of data loss. There are some common things that user do, which make data loss situations more critical. When you guess data loss has struck, follow the underwritten steps:
* Panic is a general reaction and even the experience administrators can do wrong things in panic. Working without thinking may prove very dangerous for your data. Stop stressing about data loss and do not do anything to the damaged hard drive and your computer. * If you are hearing strange noises from your hard drive like scrapping and clicking, do not use any Data Recovery software on the hard drive. It could cause further damage and permanent data loss.
When all the preventive measures fail and data loss occurs, you are required to find out the cause of data loss and go for recovery solutions. If the problem is logical, it can easily handled using recovery software. On the other hand, physical data loss requires special help from Hard Drive Recovery professionals and corrupted file you need to use file recovery software.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the leading provider of superior recovery solutions to effectively handle most of the data loss situations. The recovery software are available for Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux and Novell operating systems. Service is performed in Class 100 Clean Rooms using cutting edge technologies.

About the Author: Jacob Luis is a student of Mass Communication doing research on partition recovery. He is also a NTFS Data Recovery Specialist.