You may not want to worry about the risk of data loss, but the fact is that all hard drives deteriorate over time. If you don’t have proper backups of the information stored there, it could be gone forever in the blink of an eye. Even users who are well aware of this risk frequently don’t maintain up-to-date backups, which is why data recovery services exist.
If your hard drive has failed, there is one simple thing you can do to improve our chances of recovering all your data: turn the computer off. And leave it off. Every second that you leave your system on with a damaged hard drive destroys parts of your files.
If you need data from a CCTV system, it’s important to get that video quickly. Many CCTV systems write over old data after a certain number of days have passed, and that reduces your chances of recovering the files you need to almost nil. Even advanced clean rooms have a better chance of retrieving files from a hard drive that’s been smashed to bits than one that’s been overwritten.
It can be hard to tell when your hard drive is about to give out. The best way to protect yourself against data loss is to maintain good backups in the first place. If you don’t already have one in place, Computer Geeks can help. Find out more about our data backup and recovery services on our main website, or by clicking either link in this post.