Thursday, March 26, 2009

How to Cope with Data Loss of Your Computer

Losing the data stored in your computer hard drive is really painful. Such reality that there are some things that happen without warning is inevitable. The emotional and psychological havoc that the victim like can experience is even the harder reality you will be facing if in case data loss happens to your computer. You don’t even know what to do or how to do which. Well, due to the disaster that happens like this, it is normal that no one can think of audio visual services centers as the solution.

What if data loss happens in the computer unit that contains all the important and sensitive data about the company such as sales report and other related forms of information? Of course, IT managers and the owner of the business would panic and feel desperation because of the thought that the whole company might be at risk of disorganization. The contracts and several other papers in software copy, if lost would create chaos in the operation of the company. According to research, human errors and mechanical failure are the two largest contributing factors that result to data loss of the computer hard drive. Human errors may be prevented as well as the mechanical failure (caused by computer viruses, software corruption and physical disasters) if utmost care is always applied and that there’s always readiness at all times.

It’s hard to accept that man-made technology like disk drives are reliable while humans are not. The usual reasons are failure to implement the most important rules such as creating backups. Securing the backups is an act of readiness that would help make safe all the company records and data in general.

According to a technology expert that human intervention itself can sometimes the cause of the downfall of technology. So, it is advisable that we have to ensure everything; the computer where the sensitive data are contained as well as the backups must be in well condition.

...to be continued on the next blog entry: Data Loss: How to Cope with This Situation

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