One of the worst thing which can happen on your computer is the loss of important data. Sometimes it’s easy to get back and other times it is impossible.
Its easy to blame the old computer virus for the loss of your important information, but there are really many ways and reasons you are going to need data recovery in Townsville.
Depending on what as happened will help you determine what will be needed and how your data will be recovered; and of course there are going to be some do’s and don’ts.
Disclaimer: The first think you should do before anything is stop and think. Do you research and understand the technology of recovering data.
A lot fo the time people bring us their hard drives after they have already tried to recover the data themselves.
he simple act of turning on your computer when you lost data, to find it, can cause sectors to be written over and further loss of files.
Environmental Problems
Heat and rain play a major part in the loss of a lot of computer equipment and with it hard drives where our data is stored on.
If your computer has overheated, or you have got it wet, there is a very good chance your data can be recovered.
Simply by putting your hand on your computer and feeling the heat will give you and indicator of the heat coming from it.
Sometimes though, when the computer is getting too hot, it can be coming from the hard drive itself. If your hard drive is over worked by either your operating system, viruses or applications it can run very hot itself.
This can result in catastrophic loss of both hardware and data.
Viruses, Specifically Ransomware
Viruses come in all sorts of flavours these days.
The big one now seems to be ransomware. Ransomware has an objective and it is always money.
The way it works is your computer becomes infected with a ransomware virus which usually gets in under the guise of something else like a media file etc.
When it is activated on your computer it attempts to encrypt your data so you can’t open and use it, even if you move it to another computer or external hard drive.
You then get a phone number, bank account or digital currency account to transfer your money to before they will release your files back
To this date I have never ever seen anyone get their files released by these criminals.
DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD – they will do all sorts of things with it.
Most times your data is destroyed and lost forever!
You have Deleted them
Deleting your files is not the worst thing that can happen.
If you are fast enough, even after you have emptied the recycle bin, there is still time to recover your data back.
When you delete a file from your computer, it is not actually gone. The space in which it is sitting is just allocated as empty, so when you have new files it can copy straight over it.
The problem is your computer and operating system are always writing and reading your hard drive. The data will be written over so it is best just to turn your computer off and bring it to a professional.
