What Causes Data Recovery Trouble?

What actually causes a hard drive to crash resulting in the devastating data loss? Can it be avoided? What makes folks end up desperately seeking data recovery services? Here are some common causes of data loss;

Virus Attacks: Viruses are programs that are designed to corrupt or interfere with the normal operations of a computer system and even cause destruction of files. The destructive ones attach themselves to certain files and ensure all the data within is completely destroyed.

Operating System Failure: An operating system is used to give a platform on which data can be created and also stored. If the operating system fails it means that data manipulation (which includes creating, processing and storing) cannot take place. In this way any data stored will be lost.

Mishandling: It is almost impossible to be 100% careful even when dealing with computer hardware especially storage devices. Since storage devices may be moved from one computer to another, there is a possibility of not always being careful enough e.g. there is a possibility that a CD or DVD may scratch because of carelessness, or they may be exposed to extreme conditions (heat) causing data to be corrupted or even when trying to move the hard disk to another computer, it falls and gets damaged.

Power Problems: Power problems may come in form of power surges. A power surge occurs when there is an oversupply of voltage from the power company. Most hardware components are designed to handle a certain voltage and any voltage above the specified one causes damage e.g. if the hard disk drive is to handle 50v and 200v is supplied to it, it may just give in and crash.

Human Error: As we all know, there is no perfect human being. Some of the errors could be accidental erasure, mishandling of storage devices, forgetfulness etc.

Natural Disaster: Since we cannot control or explain nature, some disasters caused by nature may occur. This may include earthquakes, floods, fires etc.


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