When windows OS crash, is the data in E and F drives intact? does saving data in E and F drive help in avoiding data loss?
2006-08-04 07:48:04 · 17 answers · asked by kura 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Generally the only data that is lost is the sort of things that are open and in use when you are working and the computer crashes. BTW I suggest you hit up the event viewer and find out what is causing the crashes in the first place. If you were, for example, playing a game at the same time that you had the crash and that game was on 7 its files could be damaged. Usually the only things damaged are windows files and they can be fixed using SFC (system File checker) that has to be run from a command prompt. Be more specific if you have more issues or contact me direct
2006-08-04 08:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by admiralgill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the OS crashes, it is very unlikely the actual data on any drive is actually damaged. However, what is more likely is that you might have a hard drive failure or the index that tells the OS were all you files are located might be corrupted. So while the data might still be there, the OS might not be able to find it. There are several software tools that assit in recovering from this problem. Also, you can often remove the hard drive, and make it a slave in another computer and recove the files just fine.
However, your life will be a lot easier if you backup regularly. The cheapest way of course is to burn to a CD or DVD regularly. A better way is to buy an external USB or Firewire drive that you can make scheduled incremental backups to. Better yet, buy a network hard drive (NAS) drive that connects to your local LAN and that anyone on your home LAN can backup to.
While Windows includes backup scheduling tools, it is anything but intuitive to use. You can purchase inexpensive backup software that will backup your files to another drive regularly.
2006-08-04 07:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course. But, as you said about the case of a windows crash...these thing happen mostly due to malwares like spywares or viruses. So these viruses can even affect your data in E and F drives. So a good soultion is to first make a list of important data that you cannot recover from some other resources easily and calculate the storage space required by them in all(total) and accordingly buy some ReWritable CDs or DVDs and take regular backups of these files regularly. So you can atleast hav at least 95% of your data safe in case of malware attacks. As far as your concern for data in drives E and F, these partitions are not affected, 'coz windows is installed only in one drive (C in most cases), so a crash wont affect other partitons(Drives). Bye...Best of luck.
2006-08-04 07:57:07 · answer #3 · answered by piyush m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the OS crashes and it is truly a software issue (most of the time it's hardware related); you can always buy another hard drive and use that for your new windows installation. your second hard drive can be a slave and you can still access all of the data on it. The data will not be in any danger, its just sitting on the hard drive and as long as the drive isn;t damaged, you'll be fine.
2006-08-04 07:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by the_big_v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes because if you have the hard drive partioned in two like me the data you have in other place than your system drive (where windows is installed that data will be intact unless you are using a file when it crash
2006-08-04 07:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by agustin22_7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is always good to back up important documents in case your computer ever crashes. There are different ways to do this. The easiest DIY method is to save data to disks or a USB drive.
2006-08-04 07:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Joy M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anytime you have data on a drive other than the boot drive you are protecting it from a crash, however, you should do regular backups to a CD/DVD/EXT HDD or tape drive. This is the best way to be sure you dont lose data.
2006-08-04 07:51:42 · answer #7 · answered by Just Bored!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, BACKUP YOUR FILES! The only drive you will have to format (if you want to) is the one that Windows is installed to. Any other drive's data will be fine...unless that drive goes bad.
2006-08-04 07:51:42 · answer #8 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$2000 plus dollars for a machine that will crash no matter what precautions you take!You could copy the files from these drives to a CD/DVD.Terabyte has a system back up program.
2006-08-04 09:19:22 · answer #9 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BY DATA YOU MEAN THE OPEN USER-FILES YOU ARE WORKING ON. JUST UPDATE DATA TO THE HD AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN. ANYWAY, DATA IN MEMORY WILL BE LOST. OR MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE: SWITCH TO LINUX.
2006-08-04 07:52:23 · answer #10 · answered by odacrem69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋