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26. How To Limit Hard Drive Data Recovery Costs By James Allen
    With the value on information rising day by day, one of the greatest threats to businesses of any size is data loss. If the data centers in your business have ever experienced a hard drive disaster, you quicky realized just how valuable the information lost is.And then, the situation becomes even worse, when you realize how much it is going to cost for a disaster recovery specialist to try and retrieve or restore your data for you.Here are some basic tips for avoiding such a situation.1. If yo…



27. The Importance of Backing Up By Brian Cain
    In this computerized digital age, making backups of your critical data has become a crucial necessity.You’ve probably heard the old cliché: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” This couldn’t be a more accurate statement when it comes to backing up and saving your valuable data.When your hard drive fails will you be prepared? It’s not a matter of “If the drive fails”, but more so “When the drive fails.”Taking the relatively small amount of time, and resources to make a backup can …



28. Novell Operating System - Recovery of Sub-Allocated Volumes By Sunil Chandna
    Problem DescriptionData storage in Novell servers is optimized using sub-allocated volumes. Sub-allocated volumes are a new feature and have been implemented on Netware 4.x to overcome the problem of wasted disk space. These volumes are different from regular Novell volumes because they are more of a ‘virtual’ volume – one that is not ‘visible’, but exists nevertheless - and this is what complicates the issue. Since they are not physically ‘visible’, a separate data recovery module has to be i…



29. How to Effectively Back Up Your Data By Joel Gering
    What to backup, and what to loseThe oldest “computer expression” is that there are two kinds of computer users, those that backup their data and those that will. Often, it takes a “data disaster” to compel otherwise responsible people to make a regular habit of backing up their data. Still, the majority of computer users do not back up their data.According to Computer World, the annual cost to recover lost data per laptop is over $800.00 per year. This amounts to billions of dollars per yea…



30. Hard Disk Data Recovery Expert: Choosing Yours By DavidA Williams
    If you need a hard disk data recovery expert, you need one now. You have just lost a good amount of work that you need to send, well, yesterday. No matter how well versed you think you are in the computer world, chances are that at some point, something will go wrong. This is when you will want to find the right person or company to help solve your problems. Data disk hard recovery is a touchy situation, though. So, to help you find the hard disk data recovery expert that you need, here a…



31. Data Backup Solution: Why You Need a Backup Plan in Place – Part 2 By Joe Duchesne
    In the first part of this article series, I talked about the three main threats to the data on your computer. I talked about the need for a data backup solution that protects your data properly. In this article, I'll outline the most common data backup solution options available to you.A simple data backup solutionA simple way to backup your data is to save everything to CD. By burning your vital information to a CD-ROM, you can have another copy of your data if something goes wrong with your …



32. Computer Data Recovery Options By Brad Triggs
    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 deleted file, to very complex file retrieval procedures that only professionals should attempt to do.If you are trying to proceed with your hard disk recovery solution on your own, first start with the most obvious answer. Look in your recycle bin to see i…



33. Data-Recovery: What You Need By Leon Chaddock
    "Data-recovery is something we hope that we will never need. Whether you simply make the mistake of deleting important software or you lose it all in a computer crash, that valuable asset of information may seem like it is lost forever. But, if you have complete and quality data-recovery software on your computer or through your system, you can be confident that it has a backup and it is there even though these things have happened to you. This can be so important when it comes to safeguard…



34. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Reducing Your Risk Profile By Robert Mahood
    Like all plans, there is an ultimate goal to achieve. The goal in a business continuity plan is simply that: to continue your business in the face of a disaster or a disruption. A business continuity plan is not just for a disaster. It’s also for the smaller things in life, like your friendly neighborhood burglar who decides to borrow all of your computers or the small power interruption, which causes loss of data and downtime or the fire five floors below you, which causes a 5 hour buildin…



35. Comparing Data Recovery Software By Brad Triggs
    Software programmers recognize the importance of data files, and thankfully, they have been able to create products that demonstrate their understanding of how often people accidentally delete or lose important data. Thanks to software programmers and development companies, people have a variety of data recovery software programs available to purchase in the event they've lost vital data.There are disk recovery applications that are specific to recovering files of a certain format, like graphi…



36. One Method of Data Recovery from a Dead Hard Drive By Gary Higbee
    Here is the situation. A laptop comes to us with a dead hard drive. Unfortunately, the user needs some files off the dead drive. After much research on the internet and a couple of data recovery quotes we decide to try and recover the information ourselves.Luckily for us the drive won't spin up at all. I say luckily because the usual problem is that the circuit board on the bottom of the drive went bad. That doesn't mean that something else isn't the problem, but replacing the circuit board is…



37. Novell Data Recovery - Recovery of Segmented Volumes By Sunil Chandna
    Problem DescriptionSegmented volumes refer to volumes which have had their size increased by taking disk space from another area. This space is usually taken from another disk, resulting in the Volume existing in ‘segments’ across different disks, and hence the name segmented volumes. Segmented volumes add flexibility and are particularly useful in cases of important volumes needing additional disk space.Segmented volumes, however, have data stretched across more than one disk and data recover…



38. Have Fire-Drills to Survive Chaos By Larry Galler
    Back when I was a grade school kid, a couple of times each semester the fire alarms, announcing a firedrill, would shriek. We would all jump up from our desks and march, single-file to our appointed spot outdoors. The goal of those fire drills was to teach students how to react if a disaster struck; instead of the chaos that would occur when hundreds of kids try to escape from a burning building. A safe, orderly evacuation would certainly reduce the number of casualties.In recent years sudde…



39. Is Your Backup Good Enough? By Jeremiah O'Connell
    As someone who has seen quite a few hard drive crashes over the years, I believe that performing a full backup of your computer's hard drive should be an important part of your weekly (if not daily) routine. There's nothing more frustrating & costly than trying to restore a computer with only a handful of Floppy disk drives, a couple of scratched CD-ROMs or poorly stored backup tapes.All too often have I been called upon to try and get a home or office computer working again, only to find that…



40. 5 Simple Tips to Prevent MS Access Database Corruption By Kevin Sparks
    It's important to understand that any time an Access client disconnects unexpectedly, it may set a "corruption flag" in the .mdb file indicating that the database is in a corrupt state (regardless of whether any data has actually been corrupted or not). Any user who attempts to open the database while this flag is set will receive a message, and the database will have to be repaired before it can be used. If the users don't have permission to perform the repair, or don't know how to perform th…



41. Backup Your Data Or Lose Your Life! By Demetria Zinga
    Oh the perils of collecting those precious photos on your PC for years, only to have your hard drive crash one day, and not have made a SINGLE BACKUP COPY of any of your priceless pictures. Well, now is the time to backup your hard drive. A few simple steps will set you on your way…so let’s not think about it anymore: let’s DO it.There are several ways you can backup your PC data.1.) CD’s and DVD’s are one of the simplest ways to go. It’s a very simple process to pop in a CD-ROM and burn a …



42. How to Survive an Operating System Crash By Patty Gale
    "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows could not be accessed or located."It happens to the best of us. A complete operating system failure. One day you might turn on your p.c. and that dreadful message is on your screen as plain as day. You don't know what you could have possibly done, as your computer was working fine just a little while ago.Panic is usually the first thing to set in. Something like an operating system failure can literally put home business owners out of busine…



43. Backup -- But Where To? By Lynn Chan
    We all know we have to backup regularly, but those backups files can get huge. Add that to your existing your files and your notebook computer hard drive seems to have shrunk overnight. No matter what size hard drive you have on your notebook computer, space is a premium. Besides, it's not exactly a good idea to store your backups on the same hard drive since you can't retrieve it -- rather defeats the purpose of backing up don't you think? So what do you do, what are your options?Backup to an…



44. The Best Data Recovery Choice For You By John Simpson
    The best defense against a loss of data is a really solid and faithful backup routine of important files to reliable media. It's also a good idea for the media to be removable and portable if possible so that even if something happens to your whole computer for any reason, the data is protected by being in a totally different physical area.OK, so that is the best solution to data loss. But what if you have not been backing up your drive like you should and now you find yourself confronted wit…



45. Offsite Data Backup Not Just for Fortune 500 Companies Anymore By Harald Anderson
    In today’s high paced digital world there is a very high value placed on information. Not just the kind of information you read in the newspaper or your favorite trade journals, but the type of information that we generate on a day to day basis with our digital devices. There was a time when a concept like “offsite data backup” was relegated to the geeks in IT at Fortune 500 companies…That time is gone.With mission critical data stacking up in both our professional and private lives more and…



46. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Risk Analysis and Control By Robert Mahood
    In the risk evaluation phase, there are a number of key areas that must be covered. One of the most important is to understand probable threats. In an ideal world, which most of us have noticed does not exist, we would identify and protect ourselves against all threats to ensure that our business continues to survive. Obviously, we are constrained by other factors such as budgets, time and priorities and need to apply cost benefit analysis to ensure we are protecting the most critical business…



47. Novell Data Recovery - Recovery of Formatted Volumes By Sunil Chandna
    Problem DescriptionFormatting a volume effectively means erasing it in its entirety. Formatting is usually done to remove sensitive data on a volume, or it may be done to prepare a volume for fresh usage (usually done after corruption), or it may just be the result of plain human error. Whatever the reason, the end result is that the user cannot access data. Phoenix Novell’s advanced software engine can recover data from formatted volumes.Technical Aspect of the ProblemFormatting a volume, i…



48. Easy File Recovery: Basic Backup Guidelines By Yuri Filimonov
    You can skip these backup guidelines and do not backup if: you have never misedited a file and saved deleted a file by mistake never had to recover from a hard disk crash, a virus, a computer theft or other similar computer disaster. Probably, you may even think that you do not need to backup. And you may be right, if you are so lucky. If you are not so lucky or wish to further improve your security, you can check this article as an online backup tutorial.So what is the solution to prevent d…



49. Backup Schmackup: I'm Afraid, Very Afraid! By Teena Hughes
    "Why should you be afraid?", I can hear you ask.I just got an email from my friend Miche who said,"My laptop is sick at the hospital. Hard Drive failure. Am praying data can be retrieved."Her exact words.Ohhhh : tremors of fear running up and down my spine!Why?Because ... and I have to be honest ... I haven't *backed up* my laptop for ages!Oh I can hear your derisive laughter, your looks of scorn ... I can feel your disbelief.Me - of all people - admitting this. My friends call me "TechieGirl"…



50. HasYour Computer Hard Drive Ever Crashed? Are You Challenged by Backups? By Jimmie Newell
    The following scenario’s have probably been repeated thousands of times, on computer systems of all kinds and sizes, operated by all levels of users from complete novice, to expert user.· You log on and your computer will not boot to your operating system.· You have installed some piece of new hardware, or some new software, your computer cannot find your operating system.In more than 20 years of using personal computers, I have experienced all kinds of computer/operator failures. Some were ca…






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