Friday, September 25, 2009

What Constitutes Hard Drive Failure and Data Loss

The damage may occur due to logical failure because of file system corruption, operating system malfunction, virus infection, hard drive formatting and other such issues. All these circumstances, cause serious data loss and require data recovery through appropriate tools, to be sorted out.

Hard drive manufacturers would provide you something known as a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) number on the instruction manual or the box of hard drive. They get this figure by doing thorough test and then find out that how much damage actually the drive undergoes. Then figure out that how long your computer can survive before becoming too discredited to run.

Unfortunately, the hard drive manufactures can not take account of head crashes, power surges, virus infections, file system corruption and hard drive formatting like situations. The Mean Time Between Failure is not completely accurate.

Hard drives are not the only storage media which fails, other devices like USB drives, CDs, DVDs, memory cards and external hard drives may also fail and cause data loss. The reasons of data loss and the failure might be different but the result is always same and that is the loss of your business critical information.

Above all these problems of data loss, there is a good news for you. The data never gets deleted permanently from the storage media. It physically remains intact. Only the reference and memory pointers of the file is deleted and thus the operating system could not locate file and access it or you can not access files due to inaccessible hardware. In all such cases, hard drive recovery is possible using recovery solutions. If you are experiencing the data loss situations due to physical damage, then recovery is potential with the help of recovery professionals. They offer personalized and sophisticated service to retrieve all of your mission critical data.

On the other hand, logical failure can easily be handled using ntfs data recoverysoftware. These applications are particularly designed to thoroughly scan affected storage media and retrieve all of the data from it. The partition recoverysoftware are quite easy to use and thus do not require sound technical skills to absolute recovery.

Published September 25, 2009 – Reads 105
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