Hard Drive Recovery Tips
You may not worry about it on a day-to-day basis, but eventually you just might have to.
All that data on your computer, from MP3 files and your family vacation photos, to word documents and personal and business e-mail, is never going to be 100 percent safe from being damaged due to technical failures and, worse, erased all together as a result of either some unforeseen technical glitch, theft or user error.
Conducting a post-loss, comprehensive hard drive recovery effort is not an easy task, but there are ways to manage it if you are proactive. One of the most comprehensive and recommended ways to ensure you are doing your best to avoid a complicated and potentially costly data recovery expedition is to use software that is designed to take a mirror image of your data and preserve it.
Both Microsoft (included in Windows XP) and Apple (included for Mac online service subscribers) offer software packages that backup and restore data on a scheduled system so you don’t have to remember to do it on your own. If you are running a business from home you also can choose a more advanced system, such as the EMC Dantz or Symanetec’s Norton division. Both offer full disk backup and restoration, as well as CD’s that may be used to help restore data from your backup to restart your computer even if your operating system fails altogether.
A few tips on data recovery software:
- Buy a physical copy so you have a serial number and phone support in case of an emergency
- Store your catalog file of copied data on a separate hard drive or a removable media.
- Consider also setting your backup script to coy your data separately as plain file after your main backup program has done its job
- When using your backup software or external medium to recover a single file, be sure not to overwrite folders or directories in the process
If you don’t have any form of software for backing up your data, you can rely on the services of any number of data excavators out there—experts trained in the field to help you restore lost or stolen files. These guys know their stuff! Be sure to ask if they offer file viewing software, which allows you to see the actual files they say they have recovered before you pay them for their services.
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