Another Day With My PC

The thing that I really hate about malware attack or OS malfunction is data loss. I could deal with having to reinstall applications or even reformat my hard drive. While they may be time-consuming, they’re nothing compared to the time that you’ll spend in rewriting or recreating the files that have been damaged or deleted.

Antivirus

There are many ways by which one could prevent data loss, first and foremost of which is by installing security suites. The saying that “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure” also holds true with regard to PC health. Indeed, why flirt or invite disaster when you could rid yourself of the worries from the start by making sure that no unwanted programs would be able to access your system. True, antivirus programs could cure and treat infected files. However, there are cases where files get corrupted beyond repair.

Backup

While antivirus programs are very effective in keeping your PC secured from unwanted intrusions, they are not 100% fool-proof. There will come a time when malware would be able to break through the wall and infect your system. When this happens, there’s pretty much nothing that you could do about it other than to resort and to restore the second or third copies of the files that got destroyed.

Since security suites are not a hundred percent reliable, you have to take another precautionary measure in order to ensure that you won’t lose the precious files in your hard drive. A very simple but efficient and practical solution to possible data loss is by backing up. This task or procedure is not complicated. Backing up data simply means making second copies thereof and saving them in another media.

Brainless Task

You don’t need a program in order to perform this task. However, doing it manually can be quite tedious, especially if you have thousands of files saved in your hard disk and scattered in different folders. This is the reason why there are several back up programs in the market despite the fact that the task simply involves dragging folders into the disk where you intend to save your data.

You don’t need a third party software if you’re using Windows Vista, though. Backing up in Vista is an effortless task. Its back up feature takes care of everything from file selection to file destination. All you have to do in the process is to change the disks or drives whenever they’re already full. It’s as simple as that.

Save Often

Back up regularly. Take note that you’re adding new files or modifying existing ones everyday. The file that you’ve saved a month ago might already be entirely different from the one that you have right now. Make sure that the media where you’re going to save the file is reliable. DVD disks, as well as external hard drives, are among the dependable storage devices. Flash drives could also be viable alternatives. However, data could be easily erased therein.

Do you remember the days when the floppy disk was the most preferred (if not the only) portable storage device on the planet? This question of mine might have fished a nostalgic smile from those who grew up during the days when 1MB seemed to be an enormous storage size already. But for the current USB-drive generation, the floppy disk days seem like an awful time to be in.

I remember that data was always at risk back then. It’s easy to write data on floppy disks, but it’s hard to keep them in it. The Norton Disk Doctor was a hit back then. The chances of having a bad sector on your disk is as big as getting a pimple on a hot humid summer.

Defragmenters were also a hit during those days. It might seem absurd to defrag a storage space that can’t even sufficiently host a standard MP3 file. However, floppy disk drives were not as fast as the optical ones that we have today as far as reading and writing data are concerned. Hence, it could definitely use all the help it could get, even if it’s just arranging the files sequentially.

Bu don’t think that present storage devices don’t need help from defrag programs. Applications today are sometimes preposterously large. It’s important then that their files are arranged in such a way that the data reader won’t have to rummage through the whole media just to piece through all the related files to load and run the software. There’s always a need to optimize regardless of the speed of your processor or storage device.

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