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Common causes of data loss around Lansing

The Grand River and the Red Cedar River both run through the Lansing area, and heavy spring rain or fast snowmelt can push water into low-lying basements. Many homes keep a desktop, a backup drive, or a box of old laptops in exactly those basements. Move electronics and backup drives off the floor and onto a shelf, keep them out of rooms with sump pumps or past seepage, and never power on a device that has been wet. Water plus electricity is what turns a recoverable drive into a much harder case.

Mid-Michigan winters bring ice storms and heavy, wet snow that bring down tree limbs and power lines, and summer thunderstorms cause their own short outages. Repeated power loss while a computer is writing can corrupt file systems or damage drive electronics. Plug desktops, NAS units, and modems into a UPS, shut down before a storm arrives if you can, and give a laptop carried in from a frozen car time to warm up to room temperature before you open it, so condensation does not form inside.

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