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TIPS

Tips

USEFUL TIPS

 
Here you can find some useful tips for preventing potential data losses and for shipping your hard-disk or other devices. These tips are easy to carry out and can prevent further damage to your hard disks or other storage devices in the course of the daily work. However, please contact Recovery Labs if you have any doubts, we will be delighted to help you.

HOW CAN YOU EXTEND THE LIFE OF YOUR HARD-DISK?

Avoid installing and uninstalling programmes more than is strictly necessary.

Keep the equipment away from sources that produce magnetic fields.

Always turn off the equipment through the operating system.

Disconnect the equipment from the power supply when this is not being used, since power surges can affect your hard-disk and cause data to be lost, particularly in ATX architectures.

In the event of a loss of data, do not reboot your equipment time after time, this will only worsen the situation.

Avoid sources that emit heat or cold. Changes in temperature affect the operation of the hard-disk.

Make sure that the equipment is used in the same position as the position in which the hard disk was formatted (vertical or horizontal).

Do not use user recovery software since this is only valid for very simple cases and may worsen the problem if the hard disk has suffered a mechanical fault.

Install an anti-virus and check all files downloaded from Internet; try to update your antivirus at least once a year.

If your hard-disk does not work, do not try to open it.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SHIPPING YOUR HARD-DISK OR STORAGE UNIT

A hard-disk is a device with a very limited tolerance to impacts and electrostatic loads.

If possible seal the hard-disk in an antistatic bag and cover it in padded plastic covering or another antistatic material, which does not make the package excessively rigid. Do not use paper since this absorbs a great deal of moisture. Then place the hard-disk in the dispatch box, together with any comments that you consider would be useful and help us to recover your data.

Never send a hard-disk or any other device in padded or paper envelopes since these provide little protection against impacts during handling in transit.

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