How you can lose your Laptop Data

Your laptop is very important to you. If you are not careful, you can lose the data that is saved in it and here’s how:

Being portable, your laptop may drop and crash at anytime. Take this example: you are walking with your laptop down the street and it’s in the bag. Suddenly (through bad luck), the strap of the bag cuts and the laptop drops and crashes! I am sure you don’t want anything like that to ever happen to your laptop. But these things do happen. Also, laptops do get stolen. If you are in a cyber café and then you happen to go for a nature call, when you come back, since you left the laptop unattended, the probability you will find it gone is high. This means that you will lose your data.

Another way of losing your laptop data is if the laptop is infected by viruses. Viruses are programs that have been designed to replicate themselves and corrupt files stored in the hard disk. The most common viruses usually target the files with extension ‘.exe’ and ‘.ini’. Once infected by viruses, your laptop will take long to carry out certain processes. There are also some viruses that infect the boot files of the hard drive. They make them form a loop such that your laptop will keep rebooting itself.

You could also lose your data if your operating system is not working properly. The operating system is the platform on which other software programs are built on. If the operating system fails, it means that your data could be lost because it is through the operating system that you saved your data. What causes operating system failure? Lack of maintenance, inadequate defragmentation of the hard disk and mostly viruses. As discussed earlier viruses may corrupt the operating system files and cause them not to work properly.

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