How To Survive A System Crash

A system crash occurs suddenly is a nightmare for many. A system crash can happen due to a corrupt operating system or with an old hard disk. It can destroy important personal data beyond recovery. If you take proper precautions, you can survive the system crash easily. Following are some of the important steps you can take to survive a system crash.

* Save your data files to a drive other than the drive where you have installed your operating system. If you have your operating system in C drive, choose another drive say D drive to save your personal files. This is very important, as the C drive may be required to be formatted after a serious system crash. If your personal files are in the C drive, then there is a chance for those files getting deleted. If you have any database backup scheduled, you can take these backups to another drive other than C drive. Installation of software packages can be done in C drive.

* Use an external hard disk or drive to copy your very important files or database backup at regular intervals. This will help you even if all the drives are affected during a serious system crash. The investment you make on an external device to store the data is worth. Update this external drive periodically, may be once in a week or month.

* If you have your important data in C drive during the system crash, there is a chance for recovering it if your hard disk only partially affected. Attach the hard disk to another system as a secondary hard disk and you can copy the contents of this drive to another drive.