PC Troubleshooting Guide

Hard Drive not Found

This is a very serious situation for it may be an indicator that the hard drive has crashed and without properly scheduled back-up, you may have just lost all your data. This normally sends you into fits of rage but without a proper back-up strategy to keep you safe from such incidents, you will feel utmost loss due to all the spreadsheets, documents, music files and other data that may have been stored on your hard drive. One of the easiest ways to back-up information is to use the facility provided in your Windows setup that saves files onto other media such as tape drives or optical drives.
For me, I prefer selective backup using dvd’s and cd’s which I perform once every few months, if you have a heavily used desktop or laptop at home that everybody uses, then a more frequent strategy would be required. One way to go around this would be to opt for NAS hard drives that are connected to the home network. One weakness of this would be that all the information you all share and save would still be stored onto a hard drive which can also fail.
One of the newest products being offered over the internet is online backup for which you subscribe to a service for a so and so amount of data space on remote servers from which you can download your important files should you have a local hard drive crash. There may never be a truly bullet-proof way to safeguard your data locally for failure is a very real situation for such precision gadgets as computers, whichever backup strategy you may choose, just have one, so your data is safe and you lessen the risk of losing more hair than you should in case your hard drive fail unexpectedly.