How to Recover Data from a Dead Hard Disk Seamlessly

Hard Drive, being the most commonly used data storage device for storing and retrieving digital information plays a very important role for their users. People store almost all their important official documents, personal pictures, old mails etc. Sometimes, an unfortunate situation may occur leading to damage or dead of hard disk making it seems impossible to recover our valuable data. In the blog, we will be discussing the way on how to recover data from a dead hard disk.

What is Dead Hard Disk?

 

One knows that the Hard Drive is dead when you are not able to boot the system from it and you may hear some odd sounds like screeching or clicking. Hard disk is not responding anymore and you cannot access the data inside the hard drive. In such condition, your hard disk might become dead.
Failure of hard drive can happen anytime sooner/later affecting the computer users leading to loss of documents, images, or any other files. In order to avoid such situations, it is always advisable to back up the important files and data from hard disk regularly to ensure that data is safe.

Reasons leading to Dead Hard Disk

 

The very first thing we need to do is check if the components in the dead hard disk are working properly so that we can recover the files and documents from it.
Some reasons that may lead to dead of hard drive are as follows:
-    Some transient faults in Hard Drive
-    Logical Hard Drive Failure
-    Mechanical Hard Drive Failure

Types of Hard Disk Failure

 

A hard drive may be failed if the files and documents contained in hard drive do not show up when connected with the healthy computer. Recovery of data from hard disk may cost from a few hundred to thousand dollars depending on the extent of damage. Failure may be logical or mechanical.

•  Logical Hard Disk Failure- In the case of logical hard drive failure, the components of hard drive are not damaged physically. Instead, the drive is unable to locate its own data because of corruption or accidental format. The good thing of logical failure is data will remain on the dead drive until the failed drive is overwritten by other files and data.

• Mechanical Hard Disk Failure- The components of hard drive are physically damaged and the broken parts of drive prevent it from working. User may hear some unusual sound as drive attempts to access the files stored in the hard drive.

How to recover data from a Dead Hard Disk

 

The possible ways for recovering data from dead hard drive in different scenarios are as follows:

•  Recover data from transient faults in Hard Drive- We can easily recover data from a dead hard drive if the failure is due to faults of transient nature resulting in temporary boot failure. We will first remove the dead hard disk from the sick computer and connect it as a secondary drive with a healthy computer. It is normally done with the help of USB universal drive adapter available in the market, which will help in diagnosing the state of the hard drive. 

•  Recover data from logical Hard Disk Failure- We will follow the steps stated below that explains how to recover data from a dead hard disk due to logical failure:

1. Remove the Dead drive from the computer.
2. Use an USB universal drive adapter to connect the dead drive to secondary computer to check the status of hard disk.
3. We can run a free demo tool available online like Windows Data Recovery Software to scan the dead hard drive and check the recoverable files or documents.
4. Once the approximate result comes indicating good chance of recovery, we can choose among the several third party recovery tools available.
5. After installation, the recovery tool will select the failed drive as the source and choose the destination folder that has enough space to store all the recovered data from the dead drive.

•  Recover data from Mechanical Hard Disk Failure- In case of mechanical failure of hard drive, one cannot recover the data easily, as the parts of the hard drive are physically damaged and the broken components may generate clicking sound as it tries to access the files. Recovering data from mechanical hard drive failure is more difficult than logical failure as it is possible only with the help of professional experts that provides hard drive recovery services.

Conclusion: The recovery of data from the failed hard drive depends on the extent of the damage occurred on hard drive. The documents and files can be recovered easily if the hard drive failure is due to transient faults. The recovery of logical hard drive failure can be done using third party tools while mechanical hard drive failure has less chance of recovery. The only way to avoid the dreadful situation of losing our data from hard drive is by taking backup regularly. This is all about how to retrieve files from a dead hard drive.