If Your Hard Disk Crashes, Is Your Data Covered By Any Warranty? by Per Strandberg
This was a question that was recently put by forward on a TV consumer show. One guy had his hard disk crashed and lost all data. He was able to get his hard disk replaced because of a warranty. To retrieve the data he had it sent to a data recovery company to get it recovered. ... As long as the hard disk only have a mechanical or electronic fault and it have not been exposed to water or fire the track record for restoring the data by a professional data recovery company is quite good. ... It’s always worthwhile to backup all your data or at least backup the data that is most important for...

Consequences Of Data Loss And Why Should Offsite Backup Be Used by Lee Morrell
There is a calculated trend in all business corporations and firms: when the enterprise is getting bigger, its support of data increases its complexity, volume and value. The larger your enterprise is, the more significant your data files become. The traditional tape backup can no longer produce... Some data that contains pieces of valuable information will be forever lost in the digital space, with no hope of getting it back. ... Business owners and offices managers have got it straight: if the business is to flourish, precise data information storage should be used.

Helping Newbies Understand Professional Software by John Deprice
The Windows registry is a huge database that ensures normal computer operation. Installing and uninstalling software can make your registry a mess, leading to decreased PC performance and causing computer crashes. Find out how you can fix this and other problems yourself. ... You can also scan and remove invalid software data and Start menu data from the registry. ... The result of such recovery is a document with probable data losses. ... More Information: http://www.deprice.com/ccproxy.htm DOC Regenerator DOC Regenerator is a new recovery solution for lost, damaged, deleted,...

Offsite Backup Services are Essential by Chris Robertson
Although you may not list it in on your IRS form, information is your business' primary asset. From your customer database to your financial records to your proprietary product information, information is the key element to maintaining both the day-to-day operations of your business and its... SERVARE's online backup services protect your business' information from data loss by utilizing advanced file encryption before transmission; quick, safe, and secure transmission to their online backup servers via a secure high-speed Internet connection; automated backups; flexible recovery...

Hurricanes: Disaster Prevention - Recovery by Mario Ramis
Before the next time you hear hurricane --think inland flooding! Conduct another walk-through of your organization's business continuity plan. Look for business and computing changes since the plan was originally implemented, last tested, or revised. ... Double check information with outside disaster recovery vendors or suppliers; notify them of any changes in your situation or needs. ... Cross check all of your services and costs with accounting so you will have the latest information. ... They will also probably want to review your business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Data Loss - The 7 Most Common Symptoms of a Failed Hard Drive by Jason Perry
If your hard drive is clicking or making grinding noises, you are experiencing system blue screens or system freezes, an error message greets you with ‘drive not formatted’ or ‘operating system not found’, or lastly you are in a never ending loop of computer reboots…there is a very good chance... ADR Data Recovery is available to evaluate the damage and potentially recover your lost data. ... You should then make a note of what happened and consider contacting a company that specializes in data recovery.

Introduction to RAID 5 Arrays by Andrea Stone
Definition of a RAID 5 Array A RAID 5 array uses at least three disks and stripes information at the byte level across the member disks. Parity data is also written across each member disk to allow the RAID data to be recovered in the event of a disk failure. ... Some disadvantages of RAID 5 are that it offers slower writes as it must write parity data in addition to regular data. ... The parity data allows the RAID to be recovered. ... Since a RAID 5 writes parity data to each of the member disks, a RAID 5 can sustain the failure of one disk.

Hard Drive Failure And Deleted Files - How To Recover That Information by Terry Till
Today I switched on my computer and after a short while I need to access some information that I had backed up on my external hard drive. I had bought and started to use the external hard drive after I had suffered a computer failure some 12 months or so ago and because it had caused me so many... As a consequence of this information it would appear that with any vital information it is worthwhile making backup copies not once but several times and on different hard drives and even cd’s. ... As far as my own lost information was concerned I searched the internet for any software that was...

One Method of Data Recovery from a Dead Hard Drive by Gary Higbee
Here is the situation. A laptop comes to us with a dead hard drive. Unfortunately, the user needs some files off the dead drive. After much research on the internet and a couple of data recovery quotes we decide to try and recover the information ourselves. ... After waiting another 20 minutes we had a drive image of the bad hard drive and our data was recovered. ... After waiting the 20 minutes or so for the backup to finish we began the surgery. ... First we removed the hard drive from the working system and laid it on a static pad with the circuit board up.

Trouble-shooting Hard Drive Problems - Part 2 by Sarah Lake
A common problem with hard drives is the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM." Typically what this means is that critical data is missing or damaged in two possible locations. The first is the Master Boot Record (MBR). This data area contains error messages and pointer information that... The normal response to this error message is to boot to a floppy disk and to re-partition the drive (probably using FDISK) and thereby totally removing any possibility for recovery of the data on that drive, except by dedicated data recovery software or a data recovery facility.