Hard drives fail

Like death and taxes, hard drive failure is inevitable. You can protect yourself with redundant solutions like RAID. Offsite backups are also a great idea. But what happens when the only place your critical data lives is on a hard drive, and that drive just died?

Bzzzz-Click . . . Bzzzz-Click, the Sound of Panic

When you hear this sound coming from your computer, it means your drive has failed. The computer won't boot. The data is gone . . . or is it? The first thing you should do is Power Off the Computer! This will help to prevent further damage to drive platters, increasing the chances of a successful recovery. The second thing to do is call Russell Consultants. In most cases we can recover your critical data.

Haven't heard the Sound of Panic yet?

Use computers long enough and you will. Call us now and we can help to ensure a failed drive doesn't mean loss of data.