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Computer Data Recovery Options
Losing files on your computer can be a frightening experience if the files are of importance to you personally or professionally. Computer data recovery techniques include the most simple of operations, like simply retrieving an accidentally...
Email Recovery-Good Software can fix your lost mail trouble
Emails are an essential medium of communication in the fast
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purposes, emails are indispensable. Loss of emails can bring
about anything from a minor loss to devastation, depending...
Get Down With OCP: Evaluating DBA Job Applicants in an OCP World
Not long ago, weeding through DBA applicants with a tech interview was a straightforward process. You'd ask candidates 200 or so technical questions. If they got 100 correct answers, you knew they'd been around the block; 150 or more and you knew...
Hard Drive Crash? The Essential Data Recovery Report
Your worst nightmare just became a horrifying reality. You keep hearing that little voice in your head mockingly shout “you should have backed that stuff up” The voice keeps echoing throughout your head as you perform a quick inventory all of...
Keep A Diary Of Your Computer
Keeping a diary of your computer can be a valuable asset if something goes wrong. Imagine for a moment the consequences if your hard drive failed or worse, someone stole your computer. And whilst having a reliable and recent backup is an...
Recognizing a PC with Malware
What can you do if you think your computer is affected by spyware or a virus or other malware? (Malware is short for malicious software.) First let me assure you that you aren't in this alone. There are excellent resources and community sites...
The Day My Laptop was Stolen Almost Killed My Business…..
One of the worst feelings I have ever had was the day my laptop was stolen. The laptop can be replaced. However the loss of critical DATA was the biggest risk my business has ever faced. When I recovered from the experience I asked...
The Essential Data Recovery Report
Your worst nightmare just became a horrifying reality. You keep hearing that little voice in your head mockingly shout “you should have backed that stuff up” The voice keeps echoing throughout your head as you perform a quick inventory all of the...
The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups
Backups of company data are carried out for two main reasons. The first is to cater for those times when a document is inadvertently deleted or damaged and you wish to recover the original document; the second is as part of a disaster recovery...
Your Hard Disk Failed... Don't Panic !
Inability to access your data stored on the data storage device could be caused by many reasons, from those that are easy to fix to those which are completely impossible to fix. If the damage is irreversible then data loss will occur. The causes of...
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Do It Yourself Data Recovery: Freezer Method
There has been a long running myth about putting your hard drive
in the freezer when it crashes in order to revive it just long
enough to pull your data off of it. We've run this test for fun
on many occasions in different scenarios with junk test drives
that we have in our lab. So far we have yet to see this actually
produce any positive results. Infact, in one instance we
actually began to see the formation of tiny microscopic ice
crystals on the platter themselves, which is a definite crash
waiting to happen.
See the problem with this theory is, contrary to popular belief,
hard drives are not completely sealed. Regardless of what you've
heard or read, all hard drives have a tiny breather hole
(usually marked with a label that says DO NOT COVER). This hole
not only aids in cooling but it also helps to equalize air
pressure in the drive when the platters are spinning. On the
other side of this hole is a filter which keeps dirt and debris
from getting inside the drive. However, this filter does not
stop heavy amounts of moisture (epecially in flood situations)
or moisture vapor (such as found naturally in the air).
Placing a hard drive in the freezer, even if it is wrapped in
ziplock bags, esd bags, taped up, and completely
waterproofed,
there is still moisture vapor within the air surrounding the
drive. When a drive is placed in a freezer, this vapor can
settle on the platter and form microscopic ice crystals. When
the hard drive is powered up after being removed from the
freezer, the read/write head would come in contact with these
crystals, which would pretty much resemble an airplane flying
into a mountain.
At that point your data for that area of the platter, not to
mention the heads themselves are destroyed. While there are
stories where this has worked, we get calls from customers every
so often where their hard drives failed, and then after a few
hours they worked again on reboot. In the case of freezer
drives, it's hard to tell if it's a quirk with the drive or if
actually freezing the components helped to get the drive
functional again. Regardless, if your data is valuable at all,
then the freezer method may be one trick you want to steer clear
of.
About the author:
Greg Duffield is the founder of ACS Data Recovery, a premier
provider of hard drive data recovery services. You can reach
them toll free at 1-877-646-0546 or on the web at http://www.acsdata.com
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