Minggu, 23 Mei 2010

Data Recovery

What is Data Recovery?
Data recovery is a process of rescuing data from damaged, failed, sabotaged, or inaccessible data storage media when all normal means of data access have been exhausted.

How to Avoid Data Disaster?
Every data storage device is bound to fail at some point in time without exception. The best way to overcome or avoid consequences of such unpleasant incidents is to have a back up system in place, where one could backup important data quite regularly. There are tons of options available as far as onsite or offsite data backup solutions are concerned. A quick search about “Data Backup” using Google or any other major search engine can generate good number of leads.

 What are the Symptoms / Reasons of a Data Device Failure?
Your data device might be showing some of the symptoms listed below. Or, you might already know what reasons are making the data inaccessible. This can be due to physical damage to the storage device or logical corruption to the file system or operating system preventing device from being accessible by the host operating system or computer BIOS. Below, we have listed many of them.
  1. Clicking sound heard from device
  2. Hard disk drive not spinning up
  3. Electronics controller card is damaged
  4. Smoke was observed / smelled
  5. Device firmware has become corrupt
  6. Hard disk drive components failure
  7. Fire or water damage
  8. Media surface contamination / damage
  9. Inaccessible drives / partitions
  10. Virus attack has corrupted the file system
  11. Accidentally deleted files / directories
  12. Accidental reformatting of partitions
  13. Missing or deleted partitions
  14. Applications are unable to run or load data
  15. Computer won't boot
  16. Computer has blue screen
  17. RAID controller failure
  18. RAID configuration lost
  19. Accidental reconfiguration and initialization of RAID array
  20. Multiple drives failure of a RAID array
  21. RAID partition missing
  22. Water damaged tapes
  23. Broken tapes
  24. Tape backup failures
  25. Overwritten tapes

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