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6 Worst Reasons of hard disk failure
By: Lion_Heart Date: February 3, 2013, 12:04 am
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[font=comic sans ms]6 Worst Reasons of hard disk failure[/font]
Hard disks are often containing the bundle of important
information and a huge capacity to store valuable data. But no
one would take interest to backup their data or important files
so that it can be recovered anytime at the time of failure or
corruption. Hard disk failure can happen anytime due to bad
power supply, virus attack, damaged block and sectors, corrupted
operating system files e.g., NTLDR, boot.ini, msdos.sys etc.
Here, are the list of top 6 reasons of hard disk failure with
its solutions which will surely help’s the user to recover data
from the conditions easily and without affecting or modifying
any data. If in any conditions, the solutions mentioned below
would unable to resolve issue, then switch to any data recovery
software immediately to avoid any further damages to the system
or to the data.
Firmware or Manufacturer Faults:
Symptoms:
The hard disk is undetectable or not recognized at all by the
System.
The system fails to boot or hang in mid of the booting process.
Reason:
This problem could occur mainly with the brand new hard disk
after which the hard disk stops to work after few days of
purchasing because of manufacturers fault. These types of faulty
hard disks are delivered to customer without testing.
Solution:
Users have to contact their hard disk customer center for
replacement if possible, therefore, this type of error doesn’t
require to pay extra amount except to lose some data, which is
stored in the hard drive before corruption. Manufacturer doesn’t
guarantee it to recover, so the users are required to have any
well known data recovery software for complete recovery of
important files and folders from the corrupted or formatted hard
drive.
Heat
Symptoms:
Fans are moving too slowly or not at all.
Clicking sounds or noise is arising from the system hardware.
Reason:
This is the most common problem among all the hard disk failure
causes that occur too frequently. Due to off improper
ventilation or faulty CPU fan, the user system would heat to
peak point and leads to hard disk crash or severe damage to the
hardware.
Solution:
Ensure that the CPU fans are working fine and give sufficient
cooling to the processor and other peripherals. Using S.M.A.R.T.
(Self monitoring, analysis and reporting technology) tools will
notify the user about the hard disk conditions and any future
risks associated with the hardware.
Electronic Failure or Power Surges
Symptoms:
System BIOS will unable to detect the hard drive,
Hard drive couldn’t be able to spin up.
Reasons:
The UPS that were used by the user couldn’t be able to deliver
the required power supply or deliver too high power supply to
the system.
Solution:
Make sure that the system hardware is getting only the required
power supply. By using UPS of any well known brand could
troubleshoot this.
Mechanical or Internal failure:
This error happens internally into the hard disk due to of bad
sectors and blocks, spindle motor stops to rotate, power supply
or any other well known internal factors.
Symptoms:
Clicking sounds from the hard drive
Files & Folders become invisible by the time.
Reasons:
The hard drive is too old to operate or formatted more than it’s
specified limit. Virus attack can harm the hard disk by erasing
the data, altering the hard disk data or system files will also
be a considered factors for mechanical failure.
Solutions:
Updating the system regularly or weekly, using standard anti
virus program, replacing the hard drive after 3-4 years of use.
These steps could help to fix the internal errors of the hard
drive. Moreover, sometime the hard disk internal errors happen
due to unidentified reasons and users are required to have any
data recovery software or services for complete recovery.
Corrupted Files
Symptoms:
Files are become inaccessible by the user
Operating system will fail to boot up in a proper manner
Reasons:
Unethical way to shut down the PC, accidentally closing the
running program, use of malicious or freeware software, power
failures are the factors which contributed the most towards file
corruption after which the hard disk become unstable and stops
to function properly.
Solution:
Always using the specified way to shut down the PC or closing
the program and not installing any freeware or malicious
software into your PC will keep the hard disk in running status
for long time.
Human Errors:
This error happens mainly due to of human mistakes and caused to
serious damaging of the system. For ex, modifying the system
registry files, altering the system files attribute or any
other. These types of errors were hardly recoverable and require
the most powerful recovery software to scan deeply and recover
seriously damaged data.
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