Technology v Nature. The fight still continues without any clear winners. Nature?s fury occasionally reminds us of how easily it can overwhelm all that modern technology has to offer.

Virtualization is a process that allows one piece of hardware to run a number of operating system images all at the same time. Prior to its inception, the standard for x86 servers was to only run one application to one server.

Many computer forensic examiners and attorneys are aware that metadata is valuable to many corporate cases. Metadata is the information stored within Microsoft Office and other files that can tell when files were created, edited, printed, stored and dozens of other facts.

James was the official photographer for one of London?s prime sports magazines. He was in the prime spotlight and was assigned all the major projects that his company undertook. Recently, he was designated as the official photographer for the World Cup Soccer matches. As scheduled, James got down to business and had to his collection an extensive coverage of all the matches.

It was a fairly ordinary day; a day like any other ordinary summer day in my flat in Earls Court, London. I was employed as a copywriter for an advertising agency at the time and so had the option of working from home. I had chosen to exercise that option on that day as my sister had several job interviews and so had left her seven-year old twin sons in my care. I made sure they were gainfully occupied with a model railway set I had bought for them the day before and sat at my desk to finish some work for a client.

Just imagine this scenario. You own a highly profitable specialty retail store that stock thousands of parts. These parts are procured from the best sources that you have identified over many years, based on product quality, timely deliveries, reasonable prices and customer support.

The impact of a data loss on a business can be visualized if you consider a manufacturing operation with over a thousand employees, whose pay details are kept in the company?s computer system.

Computer data is typically stored in magnetic form on Hard Disks, Magnetic Tapes, Compact Discs, DVD and RAID. Data on these storage media could become inaccessible owing to physical damage or corruption of the logical file system.

There was a time when data loss and data recovery were both remote terms in the dictionary of IT geeks only. The scenario has radically changed since then, and at a speed that is remarkable by all standards of human progress. It has been so fast, and we have been so actively absorbed in the process ourselves, that we have not even noticed it. Our lives are controlled, managed and contained by our computers now, and we have made it that way.

When clicking sound starts coming from hard disk drive, this indicates that hard drive is facing some problem. This only happens when power fluctuate while you are working on the computer. This shows that your hard disk is physically damaged.