Ontrack’s Top 10 List Of Data Disasters 2004
Monday, November 15th, 2004MINNEAPOLIS – Nov. 11, 2004 – Ontrack Data Recovery has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of the strangest and funniest computer mishaps. The global poll of Ontrack’s experts uncovered the best examples of bizarre data disappearances taken from the thousands of recovery jobs Ontrack processed this year. In all incidences, Ontrack recovered the data, by either working on the computers or media/storage devices in their labs and cleanrooms, or by using its patented Remote Data Recovery technology.
The Ontrack 2004 Top Ten List of Data Disasters
1. Data Defrost – One man brought in a hard drive in a wet plastic bag. He said he had read on the Internet that if you place a broken drive in the freezer it would fix it. So he tried that method and asked the recovery engineers not to laugh.
2. Reckless Recycling – One man tidied up his computer folders and inadvertently deleted the ones he meant to keep. He then cleaned up his system, emptied the recycle bin and defragged the hard drive before realizing his error. He now triple-checks files before deleting them for good. (more…)
