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Help For Sick Hard Drives


Well, now there's a whole industry devoted to saving data off of failed hard drives. This gets kind of expensive, an external drive is cheap insurance- if you use it regularly.
Mr. Gaidano says that hard drives are so unreliable that they "should not exist today." Yet they are ubiquitous - in laptops that are tossed onto airport security belts, and on iPods and camcorders used while jogging and maneuvering around moguls. When they fail, panic is often the reflex. Many call Mr. Johnson's company, or ActionFront, DriveSavers and ESS Data Recovery, fearing that their most crucial records and most cherished memories have just been incinerated.


You've been warned to back up regularly!

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