Damaged Hard Drive Recovery

A hard drive failure is an unexpected event. A buzzing or ticking sound might be the only indication before all the ongoing work is lost in a matter of seconds. Since so much data is stored on the hard drives, data recovery procedures become a must in case of disk failure.

A hard drive may get damaged either internally or externally. Internal damage maybe caused by corrupt software, bad file structure or virus attacks. This is known as logical failure. When a component of the hard drive is damaged due to power fluctuations or heavy impact, it is known as physical failure. Both these cases can be rectified to recover the data on the hard drive.

The nature of the problem should be analyzed. The user can run disk utilities such as ?Scandisk? to determine if there are any problems with the hard drive. Such utilities scan the complete disk area for bad and lost sectors. Some utilities determine if there is any physical damage to the disk. Damaged data can usually be rectified by these normal utilities. The data in bad sectors can be copied to another location. If the basic disk utilities do not work, the user can go in for the high-end data recovery softwares available in the market. This software can recover almost all types of data losses.

However, if there is any physical damage to the disk, it will require expert help. Dedicated professionals effectively evaluate the damage and determine how much data can be recovered. Once the client approval is received, these professionals use state-of-the-art technology and methods to extract data from such drives. Magnetometers are a common instrument used to extract data bits from the drives to rebuild the disk image. General repairs such as fixing the reading head or the circuit board can also be performed.