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Protect your valuable data
Set up your computer in a secure environment. Your computer should be free in a dry, cool, controlled environment that is clean and dust free. Place your computer in a low-traffic area of your system and storage media to protect against adverse shocks or jolts.
Backup your data regularly. Creating regular backups is one of the most effective ways to protect your data against loss. Save> Data at least once a week reliable tapes or other storage device, always check to make sure the correct data is backed up.
Use an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). In the event of a significant increase in power or lightning strike, an uninterruptible power supply that protects your computer fried. In addition, a UPS has a battery backup that your computer continues to run for a short time in case of power failure, allowing you to save time for your work and to avoidpossible data loss. If UPS is not available or economical solution, a surge protector is a good investment.
Perform regular antivirus program to scan and update the four times a year. Computer viruses are one of the worst enemies on your computer. Good anti-virus software tests your system for sequences of code unique to each known computer infected virus and eliminate the intruder.
Look out for unusual noises. You hear a strange noise or grinding, turnComputer immediately and call a professional. Further operation may damage the hard disk beyond repair.
If you do experience a data loss, Ontrack Data Recovery can help. Even the best maintenance program can not always prevent, system crashes or data loss. Ontrack Data Recovery offers a wide range of data recovery solutions, ranging from in- lab data recovery services and remote data recoveryServices for low-cost do-it-yourself data recovery software. Please visit our Data Recovery Service Center to learn more about these solutions and to find out what is best for your particular situation.
Caring for Your Hard Disk Drive
Despite the obvious importance of these devices to your system, many users neglect to take care of your hard drive. Your hard disk is easily prone to many sources of damage. Ontrack offers the followingTips to protect and maintain your hard drive:
Protect your drive from excessive vibration and shock. All too often, when to install or configure people move to hard drives, they knock the drive to accidentally damage equipment, the data can result in a loss.
Beware of static. Static electricity, an invisible enemy and unfelt transistors can wreak havoc on the wiring in computer chips. Because it is so easy, built-up static discharge whenThey touch on a hard drive, precautions, like bracelets can prevent static discharge.
Acclimate to the room where your equipment. Be careful of the temperature, humidity, altitude and vibration, all the forces that drives hard could lead to intermittent or total failure.
Perform regular inspections of your hard disk. Ontrack Data AdvisorTMsoftware can run tests of the system that warns you of impending problems.
Put your hardware in asafe place. If you move your computer to a new location (from your desk to the floor, or from a horizontal to a vertical position), you should always back up your hard drive. A random shock to the drive could track the different heads, which read the hard drive or typographical errors.
Caring for your tapes
Tapes are fragile storage media, but as the hard drive, people often do not give their bands due attention and protection.
Keep yourBoxed tapes, you need to use sunlight to them. Opening band boxes increase unnecessarily prematurely a new tape of exposure to dust, moisture, and, finally, a band and could erode the quality and reliability.
Do not try to drive load a tape into it if you notice bumps, cracks or moisture in the volume of cases, revolving doors, or file protection. Load a damaged tape could selectors not only damage cause to the other band, but the integrity of your system .
Store your tapes in the correct manner. It is important to cases, you save your tapes in their original and upright. This prevents uneven winding of the tape, protecting them from potentially harmful environmental effects elements.
Beware of extreme temperatures. Keep your tapes at room temperature. Excessive heat can narrow down the plastic tapes, which leads to immediate destruction and unpredictable read / write error in your tapes.
Avoid magneticFields. can destroy speakers, microwave ovens, and print heads your tapes and delete all stored information about them.
Tips for Successful Data Recovery
No matter how hard you try to protect you, your data system can still fall victim to data loss. Regardless of the cause of your data loss, there are steps that catastrophe data, your data, not a loss.
Do not panic. You should never Make your lost data can be restored. Call a qualified data recovery specialist or visit the Ontrack Data Recovery Service Center. In most cases, your data is fully restored.
Use file recovery software if you suspect any, of an electrical or mechanical failure. Recovery Software to a faulty hard disk can destroy file with what otherwise recoverable data.
"Undelete" tools, your> Data from human error. Most hard disk utility packages include a feature that file can be deleted to retrieve an. This tool must be used immediately, but because your computer to write quickly to new data on the deleted file. For Windows 95 and Windows NT (v4.0) deleted files in the trash is stored and can be restored as long as you have not emptied the Recycle Bin. For more information, see your Windows documentation or help file.
Do not clean or Equipment damaged by a natural disaster use. Whether it is a flash flood or tornado, a rotation, if you've fallen victim to natural disaster, one that there is only one possibility. Call now Ontrack. Their chances for successful recovery are greatly reduced if you make all the computer tests itself clean or dry your damaged.
If your data falls victim to computer crime, professional advice. Cybercrime is a growing threat to the data. Intentional> Deleting data, copying and theft threaten increasingly valuable computer data. If you need to uncover criminal activities or computers require electronic evidence to make your case, now at Kroll Ontrack. Ontrack Electronic Information Management to specialize in computer and electronic diagnostic theft evidence.
Create and maintain reliable backups. It's amazing how few people backup their systems regularly and actually check whether backupscompletely and accurately.
If you have suffered loss of data, professional help. Professional data recovery offer search expertise and the tools needed to recover your data efficiently and quickly around.
