Hard Disk Failure- Causes, Signals and Recovery Option

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In today’s technological era, hard drive failure is one of the issue which can disrupt all your work. It is even difficult to imagine hard drive failure if we see with respect to stunning rate with which data is growing. Every organization's growth and success rate depends upon continuous and smooth flow of data. Without business data like user database, client’s information, sales record etc an organization is no where. By understanding how data loss is effecting organizations and individuals, many hard disk recovery services companies came into light.

Causes of Hard disk Failure

Many hard disk recovery services company have taken responsibility to save organizations and individuals affected from data loss cases. Be it a case of physically damaged hard drive or head crash, Hard disk recovery experts recover your data under controlled environment of class 100 clean room. Below are some reasons which cause hard disk failure:

Firmware issue: Firmware is a software code embedded in hard drive’s hardware. If it met with any error or corruption, hard disk fail to interact with computer and lead to hard disk failure.

Mechanical failure: As hard disk consist of various electromagnetic components like head, spindle, motor, platters etc. If any of these devices gets corrupted. Hard disk will stop working.

Electronic failure: Electronic failure mainly relates to problems on the PCB(Printed Circuit Board) of the hard drive like power surge or voltage spike. Mainly, power surge or voltage spike whang out the controller board making hard disk undetectable to the BIOS.

Logical failure: Logical errors are different from electrical or mechanical failure and comprise of human errors, virus attack, file system corruption etc.

Physical Failure: Any physical damage to the storage media like head crash, scratch on the disk due to any reason like natural disaster for e.g. flood, earthquake etc can result to physical failure.

Don't Ignore Warning Signals:

It is always said “prevention is better than cure”. Don't ignore early signs of failure. As hard disk is bound to reflect symptoms, if it is about to fail. By analyzing the symptom you can save your data. Some indications are mentioned below which usually shown by hard disk:

1.Weird sound from the hard disk
2.Unable to boot
3.Hangs on Blue Screen of Death

Available Recovery Options:

Recovering data from hard disk require expertise hands and protected environment of class 100 clean room to avoid further damage HDD recovery services experts, employ data recovery techniques depending upon the data loss case and hard drive nature. Experts always advice not to try data recovery by yourself. As single mistake can take your data away from you. So it’s better to trust experts for your precious data.To explore more visit http://www.stellarinfo.co.in/ 

Clicking sound from the hard drive – How to Get Rid of it?

Sometimes, while transferring files, pictures from some external device to your laptop/desktop hard drive, the Blue Screen Of Death appears from nowhere. May be sometimes, the system becomes unresponsive in the middle of watching a movie from the hard disk or even surfing Internet. After such an incident, when you try to boot the system it flashes some error messages, following which the hard drive of the system becomes completely inaccessible. You may hear some kind of continuous clicking sound from the hard drive and that signals a possible damage to the head of the hard drive. Such problems can handled by hard disk recovery experts.

Cause:

The unusual clicking sound from the drive when powered on, is a clear indication towards the failure of the hard disk drive. It may have been caused due to the displacement of the actuator arm or any damage to the head of the hard disk.

These situations may seem like you can easily repair it back. But, any unwanted experimentation on the troubled hard drive will only further worsening the situation. Hence, in any instance of physical damage to the hard disk, you must take utmost care to avoid any further damage and perform the recovery through hard disk recovery professional.

Hard disk recovery is a systematic scientific process and need to be done through experienced professionals. Moreover, you should never open the hard drive in ordinary environment, as the dust particles in the atmosphere may go within the head and platter, resulting scratches on the magnetic surface of the platter. This cause serious data loss beyond the scope of hard drive recovery. Physically damaged hard drives must be opened and repaired inside sterile laboratory of CLASS 100 Clean Rooms.