A hard drive can stop working all of a sudden and imagine that the files stored on it get lost without any backup. You might never make enough preparations for facing such a situation. Most common reasons for data loss are connected to our everyday lives - the way we save and handle our data.

There are many ways a data loss can occur. We have given some of the causes on the right hand side of this page. There are external as well as internal hard disks. If the drive is physically damaged, Startrack always recommends sending the HDD to a professional data recovery service. It is highly likely that the disk chamber has to be opened in a clean room and polish the platter surface in order to read them without causing further damage.

Even with all the software and hardware recovery techniques, we may not be able to fully recover the entire data in the hard drive. Sometimes the files may be corrupted after recovering the data. In that case, files have to be restored to its original state which requires more time and effort.

We recommend backing up your hard drive once a week or once a month. If your data changes on a daily basis then backup daily. You can use the service of cloud storage, Google Drive or even an external hard disk which is not connected to the same computer always.

Ransomware which encrypts hard drives is a major threat to businesses in all sectors, with some areas getting hit particularly hard, especially healthcare. We provide special care and assistance in case of Ransomeware attack.