Hard drive failure recovery Can I recover files from a dead hard drive?

There are many data loss situations are caused by hard drive failures. The hard drive become dead can be a disaster for our data. Therefore, it’s necessary for us to know the symptoms or signs about the hard drive is about to die. If you found the physical failure on your hard drive, you should be careful to keep your data to avoid the possible data loss. You should pay more attention to your data if the following situations happen.

1. You frequently get error messages when you access files or move files on the hard drive.

2. If you found the file named changed or have garbled words, you should be alert to the risk of data loss.

3. The files missing with no reason, and not for the virus infection.

4. The computer runs very slow, such as it takes you abnormal time to access to a file.

5. Strange and abnormal clicking sound occurs when the head is reading data.

6. Abnormal shut down or reboot of computer

7. Bad sectors are frequently found in the hard drive.

Once any of the above symptoms occurs, you should check the errors and find the possible causes. Back up your data when you suspect there are some physical damage on your hard drive.

How to prevent the hard drive lost data from physical damage?

1. Take the computer or hard drive with care. Try to avoid vibration, crash, press of hard drive.

2. Keep the computer or hard drive in proper environment. Avoid to keep the hard drive in extreme high or low temperature, humid room. And please make sure it has good ventilation to prevent damage from overheating.

3. Scan virus with latest software regularly to prevent the hard drive damaged from virus attack.

4. Turn off the computer in a proper way.

If you shut down the computer when the head is reading data, you will have data loss and also the hard drive is possible to be damaged.

How recover files from hard drive?

Whether you can recover files from the hard drive or not depends on the damage degree on hard drive. If your hard drive is completely dead, no data recovery software or specialist can help you. If the damage on your hard drive is not so serious and there is no data overwritten occurs here, you can try the data recovery software or ask the data recovery company to help you.

Generally, the cost for a professional data recovery is relatively high. If your hard drive only has logical failures, you can use a data recovery software to retrieve the data. The data recovery software can recover data lost from hard drive due to virus infection, improper operations like accident formatting, deletion, partition crash or lost. As long as the lost or deleted files have not been overwritten by new data, all the data on hard drive can be retrieved. In addition, if you have online backup or copies on the storage device, you only need to restore from the backups. That may save your time and money, and free from you from worries for data loss while you fixing the errors.