Data Recovery from Natural catastrophe

                                                                                         

Every body who owns a computer either has faced a data loss or will face the same. Reasons for data loss situation are many. Most common cause of data loss is of human error, or either due to software malfunction, viruses, file/directory deletion or sabotage. Physical crash of the hard drive, head crashing, spindle stop spinning or electro mechanical failure. But apart from these failures there are other types of failure which can strike your hard drive. Data loss also occurs due to natural catastrophe..

Data loss occurs due to natural catastrophe is a rare situation; however they kill the entire company. Only 3% of data loss occurs due to natural disaster but destruction is large. Natural catastrophe can occur anywhere, at any time either in the form of flood, file and strikes of lightening resulting in power surge.

Flood

Spilling of the coffee on our system can cause the circuit failure resulting in total damage of the system. Just imagine what will happen to your hard drive when due to flood your system is submerged in water not for a second but can be of days. It doesn’t matter to what extent the damage has been done, data can be still recovered just you have to take the following precaution.

• Does not turn on your computer after it has been pull out from the flood although the system and drive looks dry to your eyes but there may be some drops of water present in the drive which can cause short circuit
• You may think that drying the wet drive may be of help; However, dried water leaves contaminants on the drive and can cause a head crash to occur when the system is powered on. Hence, it is recommended to place the media in a plastic airtight bag instead.

Fire damage

Due to fire on the computer plastic encasing of the hard drive gets damaged, but data still resides on the hard drive. Data recovery Services Company helps to recover the lost data from such drives. In case of file you can take the following precaution.

• When your computer becomes wet from fire hoses, take the wet hard drive out of the system and do not dry; instead place it in a plastic and airtight bag. It is because during a fire, with the help of small air vents, extreme pressure changes pull the contaminants and water inside the drive.

• If you notice that you are not able to pull the hard drive out of the melted computer because it is sealed, then leave it like that.

So recovery from these natural catastrophes can be done by data recovery Services Company if we take such precaution after the misshaping.

About the author:
Andrew Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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