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A computer technician accidentally erased records of a $38-billion fund for Alaskan residents.

Last week, I read this terrible news at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_re_us/lost_data, about a computer technician who accidentally destroyed a $38Billion records of Alaskan citizens. It's a pity that such minor glitch could ruin an entire database of records gathered for years. Having computer repair services in my company made me think of the consequences we would be facing if the technician in the news happend to be our technician. It'll be indeed, terrible. Then the thought occured to me that although there's a minor possibility that such incident can happend even with a highly skilled computer expert, at least implementing a strict standard operating procedure in a critical computer routine maintenance can save our company from such an abominable mistake.

It is woefully true that in the Philippines,many business owners resort to inexperienced neighborhood technician in taking care of their office and home computers unaware of the potential risks. True, many PC amateurs know how to assemble and disassemble PCs, install OS or MS Office application but you might not know what you are risking. A single mistake in your BIOS configuration, a wrong handling of parts to cause static damage, a mishandling of boot.ini file, an incorrect formatting of hard disk, unintentional registry modification might screw up all your important files and totally ruin your entire week trying to restore the lost files and important settings if still recoverable.

It will be much cheaper and safer to entrust your computer needs to people with indepth understanding of the fundamentals of your home and office computer systems. Preferably, one with considerable industry experience. Resorting to freelancer service is not a bad idea specially if you knew your friendly freelancer very well and has a good reputation in computer repairs, else, better look for for professional PC repair service center and arrange for a home service.