Recover Your Data The Easy Way

There you are, sitting all alone, surfing the web. You're eating some tacos from Taco Bell when all of a sudden the taco shell cracks and you've got taco meat all over your computer. In your panic you spill your diet coke all over the keyboard. You jump up to get some paper towels but trip over the power cord, yanking the computer off the table and sending it crashing to the floor.

You're screwed. Hardware damage, logical damage (internal), and all you want right now is to turn the clock back and get some FREAKIN soft tacos this time instead.

But, not all is lost. There are easy ways to recover your data. The best way, obviously, is prevention. Don't eat tacos on the computer.

But Microsoft can't control that. What they can control, is their journaling file systems such as NTFS which minimize the frequency of logical damage. Microsoft has included a feature where you can turn back the clock on your OS to when it worked normally. Its like the fountain of youth for your computer. This is an easy way to recover data.

One problem that can arise is when the disk controller thinks that files have been saved to the hard disk when they've actually been saved to the cache, which is temporary. Then if the power goes out or you have a taco accident, your files aren't saved and you're going to have to try to recover the data somehow. Try using a hard disk that saves data BEFORE it reports that its saved. Some hardware does it backwards.

Another measure you can take to prevent data loss is to get something called a battery backup. This way, if the power goes out, your computer will shift to use battery power so you can shut down normally, free of data loss!

By: Computer Nerd

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