What Causes Data Loss?

Hardware or system problems account for approximately 56% of data loss occurrences, with the majority of these malfunctions being hard drive failures.

Our data recovery engineers classify hard drive failures in two categories:
• Logical Failure: The hard drive is in working order but files are not accessible.
• Mechanical or Electronic Failure: The hard drive is not functioning.

Main causes of data loss include:
- Power Surges
- Natural Disasters
- Physical Damage
- Viruses
- Human error
- Hardware Failure
- Software Corruption
- Worm Attack
- Fire
- Flooding