Saturday, June 19, 2010

Some tips to safeguard your system from data loss


Some way or the other, we all have suffered the trauma of losing our valuable computer. The data loss can happen to us in miscellaneous ways, whether you are a single user or working in a large company. It is true that a big company would be in a position to spend anything for the data recovery of the valuable data. But if you are a home user, probably you would not spend that much. Hence, it is always better to prepare for such situations than to repent afterwards. But, if you still lose the data then you should use a third-party data recovery software to restore the lost or inaccessible data.

There could be following various reasons for data loss:

User action: Losing data due to deleting a file or application, which may be required later on.
System or infrastructure problems: Losing data due to power breakdowns, faulty hardware components, or software crashes.
External factors: Losing data due to natural disasters such as floods, sabotage, etc.
Accidents: Losing data due to blanket deletion, accidentally formatting an external hard drive, or deleting files in a network.
External interference: Losing data due to virus infections or your system being controlled by a hacker.

You should safeguard your data and organize it against the data loss using some of the following recommended methods:

RAID: It makes redundant copies of the data in multiple disks so that the failure of a single disk does not result in complete data loss.
Journalizing: It includes creating a journal of all the write operations so that you could cross check the journal if the write operation fails.
Antivirus: It ensures that the system does not get corrupted by the viruses.
Firewalls: It acts as a barrier between the various networks by controlling the transfer of data between the networks.
User education: It involves informing the user how to be careful against the data loss situations.

If you have faced data loss even after performing these methods, then you should use a third-party data recovery software to perform data recovery. Such data recovery tools are read-only in nature that recover data using fast and sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Windows Data Recovery is a data recovery software that recovers lost, formatted, or inaccessible data. It is able to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard drives, pen drives, external hard disks, etc. In addition, this file recovery tool is capable of performing RAID data recovery on the RAID servers. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

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