How Data Gets Lost...

The digital revolution has dramatically improved our lives and because of it, most of us store large volumes of digital files that are very important to us.

The vast amount of storage in today's technology means that we can store or LOSE large quantities of our digital lives at the click of a button.

Everything from computers to digital cameras to cell phones have memory storage that can fail at any moment, most often with no warning.

So what exactly causes data loss?

Listen in as we bring in the Data Doctors Data Recovery specialists that spend their entire week helping those that have lost their data to explain just how it happens and what can be done to avoid data loss.

Join us every Saturday from 12:00–2:00PM on FM News/Talk 92.3 as we discuss your computer questions at: 602.277.5827 or e-mail your questions during (or before) the broadcast using the ask a question page.

Original Air Date: Oct 25, 2008

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Actuator : The mechanical assembly inside a hard drive that positions the read/write heads over the appropriate track of the drive platters (similar to a tone arm on a phonograph).