Back Up Your Data, Make This Your New Year Resolution
I have recently read some article on technology and found this recommendation for recovering your computer hard drive?
http://find.msn.com/search.aspx?q=Freeze+your+hard+drive&c=1120+Freeze+your+hard+drive&form=MSNIIT
I am still wondering what happened with the condensation from freezer cold to warmer room temperatures when the hard drive is used again. Will the cold temperature of and/or the condensation on the hard drive affect other parts inside the pc when it is used?
I’m not sure if it is my innate characters or just a habit acquired due to working in health and safety fields, I have a tendency to anticipate and evaluate before taking actions to resolve a problem. Otherwise, enthusiasm without proper knowledge is danger. Japanese proverb has this: Action without a vision is a nightmare. I wonder how many nightmares one will have when a hard drive crashes.
When the hard drive of my desk computer died the first time, I lost some data since it crashed just right before my routine backup schedule. Learnt from that, I have backed up my data more frequently. When it crashed the second time, I lost a lot of valuable information and data. Luckily, I had backups. I was also able to save all data when my portable computer died last year. Our computer specialist at work had it replaced without any need to recovering the data. We now are working and living in information age where we try to maintain large volume of useful data. Especially in health and safety fields, we must safe keep data in compliance with regulations, in anticipation of legal litigation, and for research or future references.
Making regularly backups of necessary information/data is critical, and it saves time when recovering data during technology disasters.