How to recover files from damaged hard drive?

There are two kind of damage for a hard drive: logical and physical damage. When you found that your hard drive has been damaged, how do you determine which kind of damage your hard drive has? First, we should know more about the two kind of damage.

Physical failure on hard drive

Physical failure ,also called mechanical failure. It is the physical damage on the hard drive. If you have uses this hard drive for several years, it’s easy to have mechanical failures. The improper plug and unplug, short-circuits, head burnout. Chip and motor damage can cause this problem. If you hear clicking noises when you try to access the data on this drive, your drive has a mechanical damage. If you know there is a physical damage on your hard drive, you’d better take it to the professional repair center to have a fix. You should not repair it by yourself to cause more damage so that you will permanently loss your data.

Logical failure on hard drive

Logical failure is always caused by software . Nearly all of logical failures can be fixed by yourself. Logical failure is always caused by interruption of data transmission, sudden power loss of computer, virus infection, accident format and so on.

If your hard drive has a logical failure, you can try to use a data recovery software to recover them as soon as you can.

What should you do when your hard drive fails?

If your hard drive has a physical failure, only the professional help you. If your hard drive has a logical failure, you can try to fix it by yourself on Windows and then find a data recovery software to retrieve your files.

If you accidentally delete some of your files or format your hard drive, your data will be lost. If your hard drive failed, what should you do to recover these deleted files?

Stop any operations on your hard drive. Power down the hard drive and then unplug the drive to connect it with another healthy computer as a secondary drive. If it can be detected by this computer, it would be nice.

How to recover files from a damaged hard drive?

First, make sure that your hard drive can be detected. And then free download and run Hdata recovery software.

Second, choose a proper recovery mode to retrieve your data.

Third, choose the partition which you need to recover to scan, and you also can choose to scan the entire drive.

Fourth, choose a recovery path to save your files.