Unbelievable Data Loss Disasters

You need to make backup copies! You must do itthat was run over by a "people mover" at the airport,
regullary! These are the sentences which we heardand several external hard drives stuffed in a backpack
almost every day, but it is just a words and often, wethat was backed over by a truck.
don't even pay attention to these things! It is so until- Tenth Time's the Charm - A man reformatted his
one moment... One fatal moment and there is nohard drive not once, not twice, but ten times before he
information to our computers and also there is norealized there was some valuable information he
backup copies from which restore information!Thisneeded recovered.
article include unbelievable, but true stories of data- Squeaky Drive Gets the Grease - A university
disasters summarize by Ontrack Dataprofessor heard a squeaking noise from the drive of
Recoveryâ„¢ - data recovery company. Ofhis new desktop computer. To solve the annoying
course, they get all data for customers back, but alsoproblem, he opened the case and sprayed the inside
they get big money from miserable peoples! Do youof the drive with WD-40. Although successful in
want to pay them?stopping the drive from squeaking, his actions also
- Helicopter Hi-jinks - Employees of a globalprevented the drive from booting up.
telecommunications company dropped a laptop- Sock it to Me - Although the circumstances of the
computer while working from a helicopter.original data loss were unremarkable, the problem was
- Wash the Data Away - On a flight a passengerintensified when the customer shipped his drive to
packed his laptop and toiletries in the same bag.company in a pair of dirty socks. The old socks didn't
Unfortunately, his shampoo leaked and floodedprovide the necessary protection during shipping and
everything in the bag, including the laptop, causing thethe resulting damage made the recovery more
hard drive to fail.challenging than normal.(ontrack.com)
- Rescuing the Research - A leading UK researchHere you can see how stupid, unpredictable and funny
university suffered a catastrophic data loss after a firesituations people lose there data. These situations
broke out in the computer science department on ashows tendency of this century-desire become mobile
weekend morning, damaging computer equipment withand more universal. And you dont need wash your
smoke and water from the fire department's efforts.laptop or backed over by track, you can lose data
- Beware of Bananas - An employee left an oldeven in more ordinary situations.It is funny, but there
banana on the top of his external hard drive whichare many ways how to lose your data, but there is
proceeded to seep its contents into the drive, ruiningonly one way how to get data back and also save
the circuitry.money from data recovery... And this one way
- Hard Drive Speed Bump - It happens every year, butis-regullary backup copies! Choice is up to you!To learn
people continue to leave computers and hard drives inmore about backup copies and information security
the path of moving vehicles. There was situationsyou can make your own information security
when company need to recover data from a laptopawareness training!