The most important thing that you should do to safeguard your data is to create regular backup. In case of system failure, you can easily restore all your lost data from an up-to-date backup. The next important thing is to identify the failure symptoms to be ready to handle data loss. Following are some common signs of disk failure that may help you in recognizing the type of data loss:

• Frozen Computer: While working on your computer, it gets stuck and you can not do anything on it. To overcome this problem, you need to perform hard reboot (using the reset button) of your system. It could be due to virus infection or missing system files. It is a type of logical hard drive failure.
• Missing Files or Partitions: When you bootup your computer and try to access data from it, you may find that some of your critical files and/or hard drive partitions are missing. The problem might be because of factors like accidental deletion or file system corruption.
• System Can Not Detect Hard Drive: If your system is unable to detect the hard drive then the problem could be due to disk controller failure or other similar reasons. It comes under the category of physical data loss.
• Hard Drive Noise: If your system hard drive is making strange scrapping and clicking sounds then the problem could be due to head crash or damage to the actuator arm. This problem occurs due to physical hard drive damage.

Though, data loss is a very critical situation but data recovery is possible even if your hard drive is completely dead. The hard drive recovery solution depends upon the cause of failure. If you are experiencing logical data loss then it can be fixed using hard disk recovery tools. However, in case of physical damage, recovery service is required.

By: k madhav

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To use the Carbonite Remote File Access feature, visit www.Carbonite.com. In the upper right-hand corner, look for the tab that says “Remote Access”. Once you click the tab, you’ll be asked to log in using your Carbonite username and password.

Once logged in, you’ll see the file structure of your computer displayed in the left-hand column. If you have multiple computers on your Carbonite account, you’ll be able to select which computer you want to access.

To see the subfolders stored in any folder, click the triangle next to the folder. When you’ve located the folder containing the file you’re looking for, click on the name of the folder and the files within that folder will appear in the right-hand column. Click on the file you’d like to open and save it to any location on the computer you’re using.

Please Note: Only the files in your Carbonite backup will be available through Remote File Access.

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