May, 2009 | DataRecoveryUnion.com

Data loss might also occur in small drives such as the Hitachi MicroDrive. Ontrack was unable to recover any data in the above right example. Damage to a drive’s circuit board or defects of the drive heads occur fairly often. In both cases, to access hard drive data, a data recovery specialist will substitute the defective component with a working one.…

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RAID Data Recovery Is Possible!

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What if your hard drive decides to enter the Elysian Fields in this very moment? Sure, you could simply get a new hard drive to substitute for the defective one with a quick run to your favorite hardware store. And with last night’s backup you might even reconstruct your installation quickly.…

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Top 10 worst computer viruses (Sasser & I Love You)

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2. Sasser Shaun Nichols: Just how much damage can a virus do? Well, take the Sasser worm as one example. This relatively simple little attack managed to cripple airlines, news agencies and even knocked out government systems. Perhaps most frustrating, however, was that Sasser infection was very easy to prevent.…

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Top 10 worst computer viruses (Nimda & MyDoom)

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4. Nimda Iain Thomson: A week after the 11 September atrocities a new virus hit the internet in a big way. Nimda was one of the fastest propagating viruses in history, going from nowhere to become the most common virus online in 22 minutes, according to some reports.…

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Top 10 worst computer viruses (Storm & Melissa)

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6. Storm Shaun Nichols: Before Conficker came around and got everyone worked into a lather, Storm was the big bad botnet on the block. First appearing in early 2007 as a fake news video on European flooding, the Storm malware menaced users for more than a year.…

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Top 10 worst computer viruses (Conficker & ExploreZip)

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8. Conficker Shaun Nichols: The global catastrophe that wasn’t, the third form of the Conficker attack provided nice theatrics but little in the way of actual damage. The premise was pretty simple: Conficker.C would spread to as many machines as possible throughout March.…

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Top 10 worst computer viruses (Part Two)

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10. Elk Cloner Iain Thomson: Elk Cloner was written by a 15-year old high school student called Rich Skrenta as a practical joke. Unfortunately for him the joke turned bad very quickly. The virus was developed for the Apple II system and was a boot sector virus that spread via floppy discs.…

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Top 10 worst computer viruses (Part One)

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All this panic over a simple strain of flu got us thinking about some of the more virulent computer pandemics that have hit in recent years. While a computer virus pales in seriousness to a human outbreak, malware attacks can still take a huge toll on businesses throughout the world.…

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IBM pushes solid state drives to Power servers

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IBM has announced new solid state drive (SSD) products, designed to help firms reduce costs and improve memory response times across its Power hardware platforms. The firm said that, based on its own testing, it expected to see huge performance boosts in user systems, while the drives would also have a dramatic impact on the physical footprint of storage facilities.…

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