How to protect your disk data from extreme weather?

As we all know that there are lots of causes for data loss on computer hard drive, some of them are for user’s wrong operations, some are the physical or logical failures of computer, and others are the external factors, such as the extreme whether. There are many extreme weather which could cause the data loss on hard drive before you can realize them. Although most of the extreme weather are irresistible, there are still some methods to reduce the possible data loss.

How to protect your data from severe weather?

In the hot summer holidays, you should keep your computer in a cool place. Overheating is one of the most common reason for your computer’s problems. If your computer is overheat, it may have frequent crash or abnormal shutdown. Therefore, you should check the ventilation of computer case regularly. If you use a laptop in summer, you should add an external fan for dissipating heat.

At the same time, you should not keep your hard drive in extreme cold weather. The hard drive is easy to be damaged from the hot environment to cold environment. The computer needs time to adjust from the different temperature. If you hasty remove the hard drive to a new temperature, it is easy to damage the hard drive.

To prevent your hard drive been damaged by lightning strike, you can add a surge protector between the source power and the computer’s power cable.

What you should do to after hard drive damaged by severe weather?

After your computer hard drive damaged by severe weather, you should not try to use it right away. And do not remove or disassemble the computer in order to protect the damage computer. If your hard drive had a water damage, you should not use a hair-dryer to dry out it for the heat will damage the hard drive. The correct response is not to open the protective case of hard drive, and let the hard drive to dry out on its own. After the hard drive has dried out, you can re-plug it to know if it can run normally. If your hard drive damaged and you have important data here, you have to ask data recovery specialist to help you.

How to recover disk data with data recovery software?

All computer users should form a good habit of backup no matter there are any problems on your hard drive or not. Backup is the best way to avoid data loss in any case. If it is not a physical damage, you can try the file recovery software. As long as the the content of the lost data are still store on the hard drive, you can easily recover all the files you need back.