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What You Dont Know About Data Recovery Can Hurt You

By Jason Perry


As far as anyone knows it's going to be just another, average Monday morning. However, lying hidden and unforeseen within your company's computer infrastructure is a major disaster waiting to strike. Upon initial booting is heard the spine tingling sound of a strange, clicking or grinding noise coming from the hard drive. Instead of seeing the usual start up screen, you are faced with a blank blue or black screen. Your system refuses to boot. "This can't be happening!" is the mind-numbing thought that keeps racing through your head.

Instant access to electronic data has become more crucial in day-to-day business and for a company to not be prepared in a situation where a critical information is at risk is dangerous to the survival of a company. Data is a commodity to all businesses and as such should be safe guarded against potential loss. As technology for hard drives improves and larger hard drives become available to consumers, more and more vital data is being stored on fewer but larger spaces. Unfortunately, disaster prevention or recovery plans are often not considered until it is too late.

When you lose data, it is tempting to try and fix it yourself and that is what most people try to do, but trying to recover files on your own usually makes things worse. If your hard drive is clicking, grinding or making unusual sounds, the read/write heads are scratching the platters. Allowing your computer to run in this condition is like cleaning your CD's with sandpaper. It will destroy your data. Restarting your computer, rebooting it over and over hoping it will fix itself, or running utilities in an attempt to recover files can corrupt your data. You should turn your computer off immediately in order to avoid making your data unrecoverable.

Asking your IT department to recover data from a failing hard drive or corrupted RAID array, without specialized equipment and professional training, may also result in permanent data loss. In addition, swapping hard drives in a server runs the risk of overwriting the striping and parity, making it nearly impossible to rebuild your RAID array. Please do NOT put your critical business data at further risk by experimenting with it you should seek out a company that specializes in data recovery.

If you have fallen victim to a damaged hard drive or RAID due to any reason, ADR Data Recovery is available to evaluate the damage and potentially recover your lost data. For more information on ADR Data Recovery's service, visit http://www.adrdatarecovery.com.

Jason Perry, ADR Data Recovery http://www.adrdatarecovery.com

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