Sunday, November 28, 2010

Resons for Data Loss

Actually,  there  are  various  reasons  that  cause  data  loss;  software,  hardware,  factitious,  natural, intended, unintended, all may cause data loss or damage on storage devices.
 
Generally,  There  are  two  main  reasons  for  data  problem:    software  and  hardware  whose corresponding reasons are software reason and hardware reason.

1.Software reason
Virus,  format,  mis-partition,  mis-clone,  mis-operation,  photo recovery for Mac network  deletion,  power-cut  during operation all may  be  the  software  reasons.  The  symptoms  are  usually  mis-operation,  read  error, can not find or open file, report no partition, not formatted, password lost and troubled characters.
 
A:  Computer  Viruses:  some  malicious  virus  programs  will  destroy  data,  overwrite,  or  erase  the data contents.
 
B:  Mis-format:  fast  or  completely  format  partition,  thus  changing  the  file  system  form  (NTFS, FAT32) of partition.
 
C: Mis-Clone: when backing up the hard disk, mis-clone or overlay the original data on hard disk.  
 
For  these,  we  can  use  software  tools  to  recover  it.  So  called  soft  recovery  means  data  can  be recovered  by  software,  not  referring  to  hardware  fixing  operation  for  its  fault  is  not  because  of hardware failure.  
 
The following are prompts that system can not start up normally:
 
Invalid Partition Table: Invalid partition table information.
Missing Operating System: phpto recovery“55AA” mark in DOS boot sector lost or DBR corrupted.
Disk Boot Failure: System file read failure. 
Bad or missing command interpreter: Can not find command.com file or ‘COMMAND.COM’ file corrupted.

Invalid system disk: DOS boot record corrupted.
Type  the  name  of  the  command,  Interpreter:  DOS  partition  mark  in  partition  table  error  or ‘COMMAND.COM’ file lost, corrupted.
Error Loading Operating System: Main boot startup program read boot sector unsuccessfully.
Not found any active partition in HDD: Active partition mark in partition table changed as inactive
partition mark.
 
2.Hardware reason
Sometimes  data  loss  is  because  of  hardware,  data recovery such  as  bad  sector  in  hard  disk,  power  cut,  head damage, circuit panel problem, etc.
 
When your hardware has some problems, you probably will find: the speed of hardware become slow, you cannot operate successfully; you cannot read data, etc, which are most often physical bad track failures.

Correspondingly, data recovery in hardware fix is considered as hard recovery, such as memory medium damage, track damage, hard disk scrape, head damage, electric machinery damage, chip burnout and so on..
 
The  most  distinct  feature  or  difference  between  soft  recovery  and  hard  recovery  is  whether  the memory medium itself can be normally accessed by fixing or replacing parts.  

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