There are certain kinds of services you hope you’ll never need to use. These are things like the hospital emergency room, an automobile towing service, a 24 hour on call plumber, and data recovery services. Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do about the need for some of these services. Accidents happen, cars break down, and plumbing backs up or pipes leak at the most inopportune times (especially if you have young children). The need for data recovery services, on the other hand, is something that is within your control in most cases.

Data recovery is the process of retrieving digital data files, pictures, audio files, or any electronic information that was stored on a hard drive or digital storage media that has failed or been otherwise rendered unreadable. To have your data files recovered, you need to bring the damaged drive to a data recovery house to be processed. They’ll use special high tech equipment to recover the data files, or most of them from the disk or flash media device on which they were stored. The files are then copied to a new CD-ROM or a new hard drive, or whatever type of new storage device you specify and returned to you.

If you had important information or treasured family photos stored on a hard drive that fails, this can be the only way to get them back, but there is a much easier way to prevent the loss from occurring in the first place. There is little that can be done to prevent a hard drive from failing. These devices have limited lifespans and they do wear out over time. USB drives and other portable storage devices get stepped on or broken. The answer isn’t in safeguarding the device, but is making a second copy of your data.

If you have a back-up copy of your important photos or files, then all you need to do is copy them onto your new hard drive once you have purchased a replacement. It’s that easy. The hard part is in remembering to make regular back-up copies so that you have accurate and up to date copies of everything on your hard drive that you’d want to get back if the hard drive fails.

If you just make back-up copies from time to time or haphazardly whenever you happen to think of it, then you’re probably going to find that the time between back-ups gets longer and longer, and eventually stops happening altogether. Instead, you need to either set-up an automatic back-up program on your computer that regularly stores your important files in a secure networked storage device, or set and keep a firm schedule to manually create back-up copies to CD-ROM or any other secondary digital storage media.

No one can guarantee their health forever, or that a hard drive won’t fail, but you can guarantee that you won’t need a data recovery service if you set up a disciplined program of backing up all your important digital files.

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