Data loss prevention concepts

Concept: Most post-crash data recovery software have serious technical limitations in getting back 100% of the data. Only a partial recovery was possible in most cases. Moreover a non-technical end user was unable to handle the issues like connecting a disk or media on which to transfer the recoverable files. Post crash recovery software sometimes also requires input about how data was lost or how it happened, and this is not what a non-technical user would know, wants to investigate, or would be willing to admit (How many users admit they did restart the PC without properly shutting it down? Who would ever open an attachment that was possibly infected with a virus?).

Another part of user psychology is that he only will search for data recovery software when he faces a problem. And when he faces a problem, everyone around him are on their toes, like his staff, the IT department, the service provider and of course the accounts department to shell out a lot of money for data recovery service or purchasing a post crash data recovery software. Moreover neither services or data recovery software guarantees 100% recovery.

The Problem due to which data loss takes place:

Partition / Boot sector corruption

Directory structure / File run corruption

File Allocation / Master File Table errors

Viruses

Accidental disk format

Accidental file deletion

Large fragmented files

Bad file transfer

Faulty software

Incorrect operation of certain disk management utilities

Voltage glitches