In this computerized digital age, making backups of your critical data has become a crucial necessity.

You’ve probably heard the old cliché: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.� This couldn’t be a more accurate statement when it comes to backing up and saving your valuable data.

When your hard drive fails will you be prepared? It’s not a matter of “If the drive fails�, but more so “When the drive fails.�

Taking the relatively small amount of time, and resources to make a backup can save you and perhaps even your company potentially thousands of dollars in disaster recovery costs, loss of revenue and downtime.

Having backups of critical information is a must.

Data is simply Digital Information. Once this information is “lost� or inaccessible due to a hard drive failure, you quickly realize the value of that information.

Make Backups. Then verify the contents of your Backups, and Make Backups of your Backups.

If however you do find yourself in a quandary with a failed hard drive. Do not panic.

Here are some tips:

• *Any* sounds emitting from your drive is not a good sign. Power down immediately.

• Do NOT run scandisk, CHKDSK or any other disk checking utilities, as this could make matters seriously worse.

• Avoid powering the computer on and off. The clicking sound from your hard drive that you may be hearing, could lead to a grinding sound. Far less optimistic for successful recovery.

• NEVER, EVER listen to a computer “Guru� friend who says: “I can fix it!� Hard drives are delicate mechanical storage devices, and the inner workings and mechanics should always be left to a trained, experienced data recovery engineer. The hard drive is one of the few components of a computer 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 highly skilled engineers have the ability, the “know how� and the proper techniques to get you and/or your business back on the speedy road to recovery.

Brian Cain ECO Data Recovery 4115 Burns Rd. Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 1-800-339-3412 561-691-0019 http://www.ecodatarecovery.com [email protected]

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