I’ve been playing with and abusing the hell out of computers since the early 80s and must have owned 100s of them. Not ONCE have I EVER had a hard drive crash to the point where I couldn’t retrieve information from it. Matter of fact, I think I even remember once taking a hard drive and putting it near a 15 inch magnet to see if it would erase it and still I got info off it. But in this day and age, the IRS which goes through BILLIONS of dollars, the IRS that pays out millions in bonuses, *suddenly* has this “accidental” HD crash to the point where all the info is wiped? This is equal to saying “I cannot present the emails to you because the earth has exploded and we are all dead”. This is beyond lying, it’s basically saying “F you” to the public.
....Not ONCE have I EVER had a hard drive crash to the point where I couldn’t retrieve information from it......
Someone explain to me how a hard drive crash eliminates data from itself in a government network?
How did her office operate after the crash, since all data was apparently irretrievably lost? How did she operate with a brand new clean computer?
The answer is it doesn’t work that way. In government, when your computer malfunctions, an IT tech is sent to fix it. If it can’t be fixed, a new computer is given to you, and here is the important part, your old data is reloaded on your new computer from baked up files from a main computer storage device. This device may only store data for a few weeks or months, but it is there long enough to reload on a replacement computer without loss of data.
You do not lose that much data when a drive crashes. Period.