Thursday, March 18, 2010

Hard Drive Crash Post Dropping of Computer

There is nothing in this world that comes close to the expense of losing your important hard drive data. A hard drive contains all kinds of data, including pictures, videos, audios, and documents. Damage in hard drive primarily occurs due physical damage reasons, such as, improper hard drive design, dropping of computer, excessive vibration/motion, faulty hard drive components, incorrect handling, and natural disasters. While backing up of the data enables you to overcome such disastrous situations, most computer users don't bother to create a valid backup. In such situations, if the user needs to recover the data from a physically damaged hard drives, then s/he needs to take help of renowned data recovery organization that provides effective Data Recovery Services.

To elaborate the above scenario, consider a practical scenario where you are walking in your office with simultaneously watching the e-mails on your laptop. While doing so, you collide with one of your colleagues and your laptop falls on the floor. After this incident, your laptop does not start and the data saved in the hard drive becomes inaccessible.

Cause:

The root cause for the unbootability of your laptop is the physical damage of your hard drive. The same situation can also occur in case the CPU (Central Processing Unit) of your desktop falls on a concrete floor.

Resolution:

To overcome the above problem and to access the data saved in your hard drive, you will need to restore the data from an updated backup. But in case of absence of an updated backup, you will need to opt for the Data Recovery Services offered by some well-known Data Recovery organization.

These companies use the expertize of highly talented recovery experts to recover data from a physically damaged hard drive. The advanced tools and technologies used by these experts ensure maximum recovery of files, irrespective of their size and format. The recovery is performed in the close surroundings of Class 100 Clean Rooms, which makes sure the hard drive is not further corrupted due environmental factors, like dust, moisture.

Stellar Data Recovery has many year of experience in recovering data from almost all kinds of physically damaged hard drives. The highly qualified Computer Data Recovery engineers manned in the company can also recover data from other storage media like, multi-disk storage devices, CDs, DVDs, and more. Equipped with Class 100 Clean Room facility, the company provides industry's best success rate.

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Troubleshooting 'WARNING 0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0' Error with Maxtor Hard Drive

It is a nightmare when your computer tries to boot up but cannot do so because of a failed hard drive. The situations may go worse when you don't have any proper backup in place. Symptoms of hard drive failure include a completely dead hard drive or some error messages that suggest hard drive failure. Whatever the case may be, Hard Disk Data Recovery service is the solution that can aid you recovering lost data even from a severely damaged hard drive.

Maxtor is one of the top brands when it comes to reliable hard disks. But these hard disks can also get failed due to common causes that may affect other hard disks. In such circumstances, the hard disks may fail initial POST test and give the following error message:

“WARNING 0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0”

The number '0' can change according to the number of installed hard disks and BIOS type.

Note: POST or Power-On-Self-Test is the initial test performed by a computer when it is turned on to determine if the computer hardware is working properly. If the test finds hard disk not in proper state of working, it generates an error message, such as above.

Cause

Two main reasons for this problem to occur are:

  • Maxtor hard drive is not attached to the computer properly

  • Maxtor hard drive is physically crashed

Solution

You need to troubleshoot the depicted behavior using the below steps:

  • Check if all hard disk cables are properly connected and in good state. If required, replace the cables

  • Make sure that the hard disk is correctly configured in BIOS

  • Ensure the proper jumper settings

If the hard disk is still undetectable, the hard disk is physically crashed. You can safely replace the hard disk if a suitable backup for data restoration is available. In other cases, you should consult the Data Recovery Services experts to extract the lost/inaccessible data from it. The Hard Disk Data Recovery technicians employ careful and advanced procedures to treat a physically failed hard drive and recover data in usable format.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is one of the trusted Data Recovery companies that provides efficient data recovery service solutions for all brands of hard disks, including Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi more. This Data Recovery Services company holds direct presence in various Indian locations such as, Gurgaon, Banglore, New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Vashi, etc.

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Types of Hard Disk errors & its Data Recovery

Hard Disk is the most important part of your PC, which permanently stores all your data, applications & operating system. Because it has moving internal parts, it may fail and create error at any point of time and may create into critical data loss situations. Such kind of situations can be taken care via deploying Data Recovery procedures.

Some disorders that can lead to errors of a hard disk, you will find listed here.


Logical error:


This error includes the mistakes that have an impact on the file structure, with the hard disk in such a case is technically intact. For instance, the master boot record is damaged or File Allocation Table file system is deleted or damaged. Viruses attack may have mixed up the file system or deleted.
In most cases, the hard disk recovery is possible. It is also known as logical data recovery.

Another cause of data loss is the demagnetization of the magnetic disks of the hard disk. This can be done by sabotage or by disturbing magnetic fields . A data recovery is no longer possible.


Mechanical defects:


For the purely mechanical defects of hard drives, can't save the disks, but the data on hard disk can be restored via a professional data recovery. In cases where for an instance of a hard disk drive is beyond repair, will be installed via data recovery specialists in the class 100 clean room laboratory, the complete entire stack of magnetic disks to another hard drive and then backed up all data onto another hard disk. By dubbing this hard disk to a new hard drive, all data are immediately available again.


Physical Defects:


The hard drive is most likely to get damage due to physical defects, and may be its beyond the software repair capabilities, if any of the following symptoms is apparent:

  • There is a problem apparent on the exterior of the hard drive, like visible damage to the connectors and/or chips.

  • The hard drive is not listed in Windows Device Manager, Widows Disk Management and in the system BIOS.

  • The hard drive remains silent (no movement/vibration, no spin-up sound felt) when powered up. Etc.


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