Hard Drive Recovery is a common term that people usually taking it easy until one day their own hard drive crashed and they can’t access the stored data on it anymore. When it suddenly happened to your hard disk don’t get panic because there is something you can do to recover data from a crashed hard drive.
Before starting with the data recovery, you should understand that there are two types of Hard Drive malfunctions either because of physical damage or logical damage. Normally hard drive was designed to tolerate certain level of vibration, temperature changes during it’s normal operation for at least 3 years. If your hard drive already cross the average 3 years of hard drive lifespan, then your hard drive become more vulnerable to physical damages. When you start hearing grinding or frequent clicking from your hard drive then it is an indicator that your hard drive is about to die because of physical damage.
The logical damage on the other hand, can strike your hard drive at any time and it is likely causing data loss more frequent than physical damage. The logical hard drive damages can be caused by several factor such as computer virus, accidental partition deleting, electric surge, accidental formating or operating system malfunction. If your computer suddenly crashed because of hard drive logical damage you can follow the following tips on how to do Hard Drive Recovery yourself.
- Shut down your computer and don’t panic. Try to find some good data recovery software else where before taking any further recovery action. Gather as much information as you can on the Internet from Data Recovery Resources or another site
- Try to pinpoint the trouble of your hard drive, is it physical damage or it just logical
- When you’ve got the recovery software and you are sure that the damage is logical, try to connect the drive as a secondary hard drive to another computer
- With the data recovery software, you can start recovering data from the logically damaged hard drive. Copy all recovered data to another hard drive or burn it on CD as backup
- There is also small chance that the damage was caused by corrupted partition table. This type of damage can be repaired by booting your computer using floppy disk and run Fdisk command from DOS promt
- Do not try to use any system utilities such as Defragmenters on the damaged hard drive
When you can’t do Hard Drive Recovery yourself ?
If you are sure that the hard drive malfunction is caused by physical damage then there is nothing you can do yourself. You must stop any other measure and contact professional hard drive recovery service for further assistance. I suggest to use their service because they offer free upfront flat rate price quotes on all hard drives and a data guarantee. Therefore if you have one hard drive to be recovered, they will offering a no data no charge guarantee.
Sometimes on the badly damaged condition your data could only be recovered by accessing the magnetic plates and put it to another hard drive controller. This hard drive repair however must be conducted by a technician in a very clean room with high tech equipments.
To sum up this article, despite everything good I’ve just said about possibility of hard drive repair you must keep in mind that there is no foolproof method where you will recover 100% of your data from a damaged hard drive. Therefore the rule of thumb for data recovery is creating a timely backup and keeping data backup as redundant as possible.
