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04 August 2006, 16:29
2005 Top 10 List of Strangest and Funniest Data Disasters. Data Recovery Service
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1. La Cucaracha - In hopes of rescuing valuable company information, a customer pulled an old laptop out of a warehouse where it had been sitting unused for 10 years. When engineers opened the computer, it contained hundreds of husks of dead and decaying cockroaches.
Ontrack Data Recovery, the well-known provider of data recovery products and services, has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of remarkable data loss disasters in 2006. Taken from a global poll of Ontrack data recovery experts, this years list of data disasters is even more incredible when you consider that in every case cited, the data was actually recovered.
2. Hardware Problems - A frustrated writer attacked her computer with a hammer. When the engineers received the computer, the hammer imprint was clearly visible on the top cover.
And finally, the number one most remarkable data disaster of 2006…
3. Safe at Home - After one of their executives experienced a laptop crash, the Minnesota Twins professional baseball team called on Ontrack to rescue crucial scouting information about their latest prospects. The team now relies on Ontrack for all data recoveries within its scouting and coaching ranks.
Ontrack Data Recovery, the largest, most experienced and most technologically advanced provider of data recovery products and services in the world, has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of remarkable data loss disasters in 2006. Taken from a global poll of Ontrack data recovery experts, this year’s list of data disasters is even more incredible when you consider that in every case cited, Ontrack successfully recovered the data.
5. Out of Time - A clockmaker suffered a system meltdown, losing the digital designs for all of its clocks. Ontrack literally beat the clock recovering all their data just in time for an important international tradeshow.
“This list demonstrates that data loss can happen in a number of different ways, whether the cause is a simple accident or the result of extreme user error,” said Jim Reinert, senior director of Software and Services for Ontrack Data Recovery Service. “No matter how catastrophic the situation may seem, it pays to have your hard drive or storage device evaluated by a professional service like Ontrack because chances are good that we’ll be successful in recovering critical data regardless of how it was lost in the first place.”
7. Bite Worse than Bark - A customer left his memory stick lying out and his dog mistook it for a chew toy. Ontrack was able to recover all of the data despite teeth marks all over the stick and a hole that went completely through.
8. Domestic Dilemma - A husband deleted all of his child's baby pictures when he accidentally hit the wrong button on his computer. His wife hinted at divorce if he did not get the pictures back.
9. Suffering from Art - While rearranging her home office, a woman accidentally dropped a five pound piece of clay pottery on her laptop, directly onto the hard drive area that contained a book she'd been working on for five years and 150 year-old genealogy pictures that had not yet been printed.
10. PhD Almost an F - A PhD candidate lost his entire dissertation when a bad power supply suddenly zapped his computer and damaged the USB Flash drive that stored the document. Had the data not been recovered, the student would not have graduated.
“Data can be recovered from computers, servers and even memory cards used in digital devices by either working on the computers or media/storage devices in our labs and cleanrooms, or by using our patented Remote Data Recovery technology,” added Bridge. “However, individuals and companies can avoid the hassle and stress this can cause by backing up data on a regular basis and establishing a relationship with a professional data recovery service company before disaster strikes.”
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