Hard Drive Failure: Warnings and Solutions

All hard drives crash, no matter how and when. When the drive actually fails, it is said to be mechanically failed. While in some cases, when the hard drive starts catching problems, it starts giving some warning signs and thus you can very well recognize them before it dies. The article aims at defining all such symptoms that occur before and after a hard drive failure. Also, it discusses about some diagnostic steps that you should apply before deducing the conclusion. However, to recover from a completely failed hard drive, hard drive recovery service will be required.

Warnings

• If you are observing noticeable increase in warning patterns for a hard drive, you should completely backup your data as soon as possible. The typical warning symptoms are:
• You find files mysteriously disappearing or being inaccessible from the hard drive
• You often observe system being frozen while normal operations
• System gets locked up when you try to boot the system
• When you try to open or save a file, it takes unexpected time

Post-failure Signs?

• When the hard drive has completely failed, the only thing you can do is to replace it and restore from backup. However, you can deduce it by following signs:
• Hard drive makes strange noises. This particularly occurs when the read/write head is failed and tries to scrap off the magnetic surface while trying to move.
• System fails to boot
• You observe a completely dead hard drive- not spinning up
• You may receive blue screen of death

How to Diagnose?

If you have encountered symptoms, discussed above, you first need to examine the system to check if it is indeed a hard drive failure case:

• Make sure that hard drive has been properly defined in BIOS. Enable the auto-detect option
• Ensure for proper hard drive cabling
• For an IDE hard drive, you need to ensure that all jumper settings are correct for master/slave
• Try booting the system using a bootable disk to see if it is not a logical failure issue

If your system is unable to detect the hard drive, call Hard Drive Data Recovery service as it might be physically damaged. Hard Drive Recovery service is the aid provided by recovery experts who analyze the crashed drive for fixing damaged internals and extract the data thereafter. Stellar Information Systems Limited is the leading organization that provides comprehensive and advanced disk recovery service for all brands and models of hard drives. The company offers safe and confidential Hard Drive Data Recovery program through Class 100 Clean Rooms and complete set of recovery procedures.