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Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc ----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;}In this computerized age, making backups of your critical data has become acrucial, but often overlooked necessity. You've probably heard the old cliché: "An ounce of prevention is wortha pound of cure." There couldn't be a more accurate statement when itcomes to backing up and saving your valuable data. Can you imagine leaving home or your business and simply not locking your doors?Anyone could enter at anytime, and do whatever they want. Using this analogy, ifyou were in a bad neighborhood, you might expect the uninvited guest to damageand possibly steal your belongings. In this case, a ‘hacker’, or even someone witha small amount of computer savvy, easily connecting to an unsecured wirelessnetwork could do similar damage to the contents of your hard drive. (Yourfiles!!)  Here’s another good example;Let’s say that you have just purchased a new turnkey business that issuccessfully thriving. Unfortunately after only one year, a fire destroys thewhole building. Of course you can rebuild. But what about all of your customers?What will happen to all of the tools and utilities that you have been using togrow that business and to turn profit? Well similarly, a high capacity, durable and well made hard drive may have a 5year warranty. The hard drive manufacturer will gladly exchange your failedhard drive for a new one. However…there will be no consideration whatsoever forthe files that are stored on your hard drive. Unfortunately, you’re on yourown. (Unless the hard drive manufacturer also performs data recovery. In thatcase, they will happily refer you to a sales consultant to sell you datarecovery.) For the record, data recovery is never a substitute for data back up.     When your hard drive fails, will you be prepared? It's not a matter of"If the drive fails", butmore so "When the drivefails." All hard drives will fail eventually regardless of manufacturer,capacity or amount of usage. Taking the amount of time, effort, and resourcesto make a backup can save you or perhaps your business costs for data recovery services,downtime and a potentially insurmountable loss of revenue. Having backups ofcritical information is an absolute must. Data is simply the digital information that is stored in file format on yourhard drive. Once this information is "lost" or inaccessible due to ahard drive failure, operating system failure, virus, or any other circumstance,you quickly realize the value of that information and the possible impact onyour business.Make backups. Then verify the contents of your backups, and make backups ofyour backups.If however you do find yourself in a quandary with a failed hard drive. Do notpanic.Here are some valuable tips:o Any unusual sounds emitting from your drive is not a good sign. (Clicking,Ticking, Grinding, etc.) Power down immediately. (This can prevent further possible irreparable damage to the hard drive, andcan make an already bad situation even worse.)o Do NOT run scandisk, CHKDSK or any other disk checking utilities, as thiscould make matters seriously worse. If the hard drive has suffered from aphysical crash, even data recovery software can do damage.o Avoid powering the computer on and off. The clicking sound from your harddrive that you may be hearing, could lead to further damage. This can make analready bad situation far less optimistic for successful recovery.o NEVER, EVER listen to a computer "Guru" friend who says: "Ican fix it!" Hard drives are delicate mechanical storage devices, and theinner workings and mechanics should always be left to a trained, experienceddata recovery engineer. The hard drive is one of the few components of acomputer that actually still has moving, mechanical parts.If you do happen to find yourself with this type of unfortunate situation,ECO Data Recovery has been recovering critical data since 1987. Their highlyskilled engineers have the ability, the "know how" and the propertechniques to get you and/or your business back on the speedy road to recovery. Brian Cain ECO Data Recovery4117 Burns Rd.Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 1-800-339-3412 561-691-0019 http://www.ecodatarecovery.com [email protected]