Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Our Survey Says....Exactly What We Wanted (12)

Today's Survey....Company selling PC backup utilities says you should back up your PC

Top 10 data disasters revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6147984.stm

Hard drives kept in dirty socks and the dangers of oiling your PC feature in a top 10 list of data disasters. In one case, a university professor needed help after he tried to fix a squeaky desktop computer by squirting it with WD-40 oil. The squeak went away, but so did his data. In another case, the decision to send a damaged hard drive to data recovery firm OnTrack, which compiled the list, in a pair of socks did more damage.

Further

"No matter how catastrophic the situation may seem, it pays to have your hard drive or storage device evaluated by a professional service because chances are good that we'll be successful in recovering critical data regardless of how it was lost in the first place," said Phil Bridge, managing director of Ontrack UK.

I sure that the results of this survey are in no related to it being commissioned by a company which offers a data recovery service. Or something...

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