Data Recovery Glossary > Corrupt Data

Data that is changed or damaged in such a way that it can no longer be used and accessed is termed as corrupt data. The most common reasons for data corruption are improper system shutdown, disk failure, hardware failure, and when good data is over-written with random characters causing the data to become unreadable.

Data corruption refers to errors in computer data that may occur during transmission or retrieval of data or making unintended changes to the original data.

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