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Discuss common reasons for losing data for a computer based system
- Human errors is one of the common causes of data loss.
- Natural disasters.
- Computer malfunction, especially when hard drive breaks down.
- Computer viruses and malware; received virus from the internet can destroy data.
- Software corruption; software inside computer malfunction can destroy data.
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