Disaster Recovery Article

Before we delve into the nuts and bolts of our disaster recovery article we really need to break the whole process down into sections, this includes Backups, causes of hardware failures, causes of software failures, ideas to recover from hardware disasters and of course software disasters.

Backups are a vital part of any disaster recovery plan, of course a restore should only be a last resort, but it�s something that needs to be put in place before the worst happens. Imagine if any large corporation never made backups, the results could be catastrophic, but in fact no more so to you than losing all of your data, read more here�

Causes of hardware failures, hardware failures are primarily limited to only a few pieces of hardware, no image on the screen or a dead computer would not indicate a loss of data, odd noises coming from the pc itself or no boot device found may point towards a hard drive issue, read more here�

Software failures very rarely result in total loss of all data, normally it�s the operating system that�s affected which will normally stop a computer booting or launching files, normally there is a simple reason for a software failure, something has changed, regardless of whether you�ve made a system change, some piece of software has been upgraded or a virus has infected your pc, it�s all comes down to software changes, read more here�

Ideas to recover from hardware disasters, firstly you need to establish whether the hard drive has failed, if your pc does boot then it points towards a software issue, if the pc does not boot up, but you can still see the image on the screen, you�ll receive a message similar to NO BOOT DEVICE found, it�s worth accessing the computers BIOS to make sure the hard drive can be seen, normally a hard drive will be auto detected, read more here�

Software disaster recovery, does the pc boot up?, if not can you see any picture on the screen? If you can and it does boot up or at least tries to, maybe stalling halfway through boot up, does indicate a software issue, simplest recovery technique from here is a system restore, read more here�

We have tried to break down disaster recovery into sections to make it easier to pinpoint specific issues, if you have a problem we don�t cover here, please contact us, and we�ll do our best to help and publish on our site for you.

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