Mar 25 2009

Hard Drive Problem Areas and Solutions

Published by admin at 4:46 am under Data Recovery


Any problem with your computer hard drive internals may cause a number of severe data loss situations. It is the most important part of a computer that stores all the data. Even minor damage to the drive may create problems in accessing your business critical data and you have to carry out Hard Drive Recovery to overcome these problems.

Handling such kind of physical hard drive problems isn’t usually something that a normal home user should attempt. Physical Data Recovery is not like just restoring some files or folders after accidental deletion. It could become really complex that needs experience and specific skills and it must be carried out in safe and controlled environment of Clean Rooms. To solve the issue, you should understand the problem areas of your hard drive:

1    The storage components of your hard disk are referred to as ‘platters’. Any damage to disk platters is generally the most difficult one to sort out because the damage could actually remove your precious data stored on the drive itself. Such kind of damage could be resulted by issues with other hard drive components like read/write head. Data Recovery in this situation requires great expertise in this field.

2   When you read or write data from/to the hard drive, the operation is actually carried out by read/write head. This is actually responsible for accessing data from the hard drive platters. Any damaged to this hard drive component might result into serious data loss. To solve this problem, head replacement is required that is actually done by Hard Drive Recovery professionals.

3    Another common problem area of hard drive is ‘actuator arm’. Damage to this part also causes severe damage to disk platters and ultimately unacceptable data loss. When it happens, you may hear some odd noises like clicking, scrapping etc. In these situations, you should immediately shut down your computer and contact disk recovery specialists.

4    Data inaccessibility and data loss problems may also occur due to damage to the hard drive circuit board. The problems may occur due to power outage and heat. The circuit board is responsible for supplying power to the hard drive and run spindle motor. When this part gets damaged, the spindle motor may not run and thus the platters and head can not move and data can’t be accessed. To fix this problem, circuit board replacement is required.

When you face any of these situations, it would be better to shut down your computer. Further use of system may worsen the situation and make your data irretrievable. The best thing to do is to find a reputed and experienced disk recovery company and send you hard drive to it.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the most reliable and leading provider of quality Data Recovery service to handle almost all the physical data loss situations. The recovery service is carried out in State Of The Art Class 100 Clean Rooms by recovery experts.

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