Checking Hard Drive

I want to show you what we’re doing here today at PC 911. You’re looking at a hard drive we have in the dock checking it out. This is a desktop from a business that came in today in a rush. Their computer operating system is not booting to the desktop. They really need this urgently, their business is on ice or frozen with this computer not available. Now, the point I want to make here is for you to take a look. This is their hard drive report.

Getting Started

We are looking here at a HD Sentinel. If you guys want to use this on your own computer it is really good. It’s fast and on a scale from 1-100 it’s got a 5% life. And it gives you all the details how many sectors and problems that it has. But bottom line when its red it’s bad, so pretty self explanatory. If you’re running a business or you’re running anything of importance it’s critical

  • Number one that you keep backups. When this happens and in this case we should be able to get this data off. Because it has errors and condition but it’s still readable. So you don’t want to get caught off guard without a backup.
  • And two is if you monitor this you are never going to get to this point. Where now becomes you know an emergency and start running around. This we will have to reinstall an operating system. They are going to have to reinstall their files so it’s going to probably knock them out of business…not out of business but basically creating an inconvenience for a day or so.

The best software for testing

A lot of clients are not even or don’t even have some of the software handy which we ask what software do you have? What do you have them available for install? And those are the kinds of questions you want to ask yourself because the hard drive is you know is spinning disk and even if you have an SSD same thing, things fail.

So you always want to be if you’re running a business and you’re looking at you know time is money. It’s a small investment whether you do it which I don’t recommend or you hire us or another IT company to have your backup plan. You should have a plan in place where when this happens you should have, you can have another unit or you could have your disk ready or image your software. There’s a lot of different options that will turn this major problem and loss of a day or two of productivity into maybe a loss of 4-6 hours.

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So it any of this puts a light bulb in your head give us a call or bring it up to your local IT person and ask them you know if my hard drive went dead like this one we’re looking at what would be my process to get back up and running and how much down time am I looking at? So that’s your home work for your business there.

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