Crashed Hard Drive Data Recovery

Hard drive can crash due to a number of reasons which can be broadly classified into two groups, physical failure and logical failure. Regardless the cause for hard drive crash, it does not mean the end of your crucial data, crashed hard drive data recovery is still possible.

Symptoms of hard disk crash

  1. Computer will not boot
  2. Error messages like "No Fixed Disk Present" or "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
  3. Blue or black screen after power up (commonly referred as Blue Screen of Death)
  4. Clicking/ticking/humming/grinding and crunching noises coming from the drive
  5. System often reboots, restarts, hangs or freezes
  6. "Drive not formatted" and “Operating system not found”, messages

When you experience any of the above symptoms with your computer the first thing you should do is determine whether the problem is with the hard drive mechanical components or is it a logical failure.

Physical Failure:

Heads sticking to disk platters, head crash, spindle motor system failure and PCB failure are some of the  damages that constitute physical crashes of a hard drive. The most common symptom of a hard disk physical failure is the ticking or a scratching noise coming from the drive. Hard disk crash is susceptible to dust, water, heat, humidity, moisture, temperature fluctuations and mishandling. When you spot any clicking or crunching noise from the hard drive, immediately shut down the system as further use will make matters worse, further causing permanent data loss.

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Logical failure:

You may encounter a situation where your drive is healthy and getting detected by the BIOS of your computer, but still is inaccessible. This is termed as logical failure. Some of the most common causes for logical failure include human error, software malfunction, virus attacks and sabotage.  Data lost from a hard drive crash due to any of the above logical issue can be recovered using hard drive data recovery software.

Disk Doctors Data Recovery Software family has easy to use applications that can recover data from a hard drive having logical failure.

What to do in case of a hard drive crash?

  1. Immediately stop working on the drive
  2. Do not run any repair utility for e.g. “chkdsk ”, as this further may cause permanent data loss
  3. Do not try and save or reinstall any thing on the crashed hard drive
  4. Remove the crashed hard drive from the machine and connect it to another healthy system as a secondary drive and test run Disk Doctors Data Recovery Software

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