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Causes Of Data Loss
Survey data from companies that specialize in data recovery may be used to investigate the primary causes for how data actually gets lost. Continue reading
Data Recovery Glossary (Letter I)
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) A type of drive where the interface controller electronics are incorporated into the design of the hard drive rather than as a separate controller. Index Pulse Signal A digital pulse signal indicating the beginning of a disk revolution. An embedded servo pattern or other prerecorded information is present on the disk following index Continue reading
Swap Hard Drive PCB Board
If you’ve ever installed a hard drive, you may have noticed the green board on the bottom of the drive, and have probably made a few educated guesses as to its purpose and use. The green board is known as the hard drive’s PCB, or Printed Circuit Board, and it’s one of the most complex and intriguing parts of a hard drive. When hard drives fail, occasionally it’s due to a malfunction of the PCB board. Continue reading
Data Recovery Solution: Data Loss Dangers
As drives get smaller and smaller, drive heads come closer and closer to the rotating media. The results are more frequent equipment failures and more destructive data losses . • A company attempts to restore lost data from carefully collected backups, only to discover the backups are unreadable Continue reading
Data Recovery User Guide – Through Data Recovery Software
According to Murphy’s Law of Data Loss , "The probabilities of a hard disk crash increase with the number of days since the drive was last backed up." No hard disk drive is ever completely safe from crashing, and losing all the important data on it. A disk drive can be damaged due to a number of causes such as virus attack , voltage glitches , software malfunction , hard disk format , accidental file/directory deletion , human error or even sabotage . Such events cause corruption or damage to the disk drive, and make the data completely inaccessible to the user. Continue reading