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15 causes of Hard Disk Corruption

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Everybody hates to lose data. Many of the issues proven to cause hard disk corruption can be avoided, if you know what they are. I have writen articles on almost every aspect of this list. Most are avoidable, some are not and we are just taking chances, such as Solar flare activity. We are in a hightened Solar storm now for the next 1.8 years. About the only thing we can do is to reboot our computers daily. So here they are, in no particular order: 1)Bugs in O.S. (Vista is the worst, but can be fixed) 2)Solar Flares (corrupts data in RAM, this is why IBM always used parity RAM in banks) 3)Static Electricity (worst culprit is chair mats that are NOT antistatic) 4)power Surge and Sag (UPS works wonders here, but turn off during lightening storms if possible) 5)failing hardware (lots of bad capacitors in the world, and you can physically see them) 6)leftovers from previous security applications (they hate each other and go to war) 7)Windows just decomposes with age anyways (Windows is a love/hate relationship) 8)Victim of the billionth bit (all hard disk have an acceptable error rate we are willing to put up with) 9)decomposing magnetic media in the hard disk (progressively creates bad sectors that won’t read) 10)add/remove programs (excessive use accelerates Windows corruption) 11)registry cleaners (just say no, unless absolutely necessary) 12)infections (avast! antivirus and Malwarebytes are the best protection money can buy) 13)dirty power (overloaded neutrals & bad grounds slowly eat away at data integrity) 14)heat (Seagate warranties require air flow, I prefer my hard disks at room temperature) 15)insufficient RAM (your hard disk must compensate and seeks constantly – thrashing) Contact me if you wish to see the article on any specific issue. J.R. Guthrie

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