Data security on hard disk, a problem that should not be neglected

In 21st century, information era gradually becomes flourishing. As important component part of information, data lays the foundation of modern civilization. To last the civilization, we must protect the foundation of the era. Therefore, data security is important. We must pay attention to any problem that may cause data to thoroughly get lose. We must prevent data loss when data exists, and find the data back when data is lost. We can ensure data security through details below:   

Pay attention to problems below when process data:

1.  Try your best to avoid moving files by “Cut”. We usually move files by cutting files for convenience, but if accidental situations cause power off during this process, we may suffer data loss. Because the files are not in original directory and it is not copied into target directory. Therefore, when moving files, we’d better follow the steps “copy-paste-delete”. Although this method is more complicated, it can ensure data security to largest extent.

2.  As for the partition with many files, you are not advised to directly perform defragmentation. Because it is very like to encounter errors during this process, and data loss cause by such kind of errors can hardly be recovered. When we manage partition, we’d better back up partition data, and then format partition. This method can also realize defragmentation.

3.  Be careful when using the third-party partition management software. Plenty of partition management software once encounters accidental situations (accidental power off, dead halt, hardware bugs) will seriously damage data, causing the situation that data can’t be recovered. I advise you to use disk management tool which has data protection function, like MiniTool Partition Wizard.

4.  Regularly back up data. It is the best way to ensure data security and prevent data from being lost.    

    

Data loss is inevitable sometimes, so we should ensure the greatest data recovery possibility. These factors affect data recovery success rate: 

1.  After FAT or FAT 32 system is deleted or formatted, the big files or files that are usually modified have lower recovery success rate. This is because FAT and FAT32 use file allocation table to record cluster information for every file, after deletion or formatting, the file information is emptied. Since the length of the files that are usually modified is dynamically increased, the files are not continuously stored. Therefore, file fragment information can’t be recovered, and it will not be complete even after recovery. For this situation, we should pay attention to back up big files and frequently-used files.

2.  Use NTFS file system, because the recovery rate of NTFS is higher. In general, after deleting or formatting, most of the data can be completely recovered. But you should also pay attention to perform defragmentation, it can also improve data recovery rate.

3.  The files that are deleted into recycle bin can’t be found sometimes. Under NTFS, the names of files deleted into recycle bin will be modified as different ones, such as De001.Doc, and the original name will be damaged. After your data gets lost and you can’t directly find file name. Remember to view the modified files. You can directly use “Shift + Del” to delete files without damage files names.

4. The most important thing is to choose a piece of excellent data recovery software. Different data loss needs different data, so we can’t optional use data recovery software to recover data, or you may cause damage to data irreversible. MiniTool Power Data Recovery does well in this aspect. It has different data recovery modules for different data loss situation, ensuring complete data recovery to large extent.           

Through processing these details, the data loss possibility will decrease a lot. But there is no absolutely safe method. So the best way to protect data is to back up important data all the time.