Hard drive failure is a common issue, whether you have experienced it or not. Understanding the causes of hard drive failure and the difference between logical and physical damage will help you recover data from a failed hard drive and prevent further data loss.

Don't worry; if the drive isn't physically damaged, the data is usually easy to recover.

Recover Damaged Hard Drive

1. Recover Data with Hard Drive Recovery Software

When logical damage occurs, it is possible to recover from a damaged or failed hard drive. Remember, not all data recovery tools will work. If you want to recover data from a damaged hard drive, you should use a reliable and secure tool. You can use powerful data recovery software like the Data Recovery Wizard to restore data from a damaged hard drive.

This hard drive data recovery software can retrieve data from damaged, failed or crashed dead hard drive.

  • Efficiently and securely recovers lost files, photos, audio, music, and emails from damaged hard drives.
  • Supports data recovery in various scenarios, such as accidental deletion, malfunction, lost partitions, virus attacks, and system crashes.
  • Permits data recovery from hard disk drives, as well as other external storage devices like flash drives, SD cards, and SSDs.

Watch this video before you attempt to recover data from a damaged external hard drive. It provides more details about hard drive recovery.

External Hard Drive Recovery
 

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Select the drive on your hard disk where you lost or deleted the file. Click “Scan” to have the data recovery tool scan all lost data and files on the selected drive.

Select the location and scan the hard drive

Step 2: Check the results

After the scanning is complete, you can use the “Filter” option or click on “Search File or Folder” to look for the lost files on your hard drive.

Search and preview all lost hard drive data

Step 3: Recover Lost Hard Drive Data

Select the desired files that you lost from that drive and click “Recover” to save them to another location.

Recover Lost Hard Drive Data

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2. Recover via Crashplan Restore Service

If your hard drive is too damaged for data recovery software, you can still get your data back with the help of a Data Recovery Service.

If the system is unable to detect the hard drive, it may be damaged or failing. Contact a data recovery specialist to recover data from a physically damaged hard drive.

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Tool Data Recovery Service

Contact our experts for a free evaluation.

Get one-on-one consultation with Tool Data Recovery specialists for manual recovery services. After a free diagnosis, we can offer the following services:

  • Repair damaged RAID structures, unbootable Windows OS, and corrupted virtual disk files
  • Recover/repair lost partitions and repartitioned drives
  • Unformat hard drives and repair raw drives (including Bitlocker encrypted drives)
  • Fix disks converted to GPT protective partition

3. Recover Data from a Damaged Hard Disk with TestDisk

TestDisk can recover and fix lost partitions from a crashed hard drive. It also doubles as a data recovery tool that can restore lost files such as videos, documents, and images. However, its lack of a graphical user interface might make it less user-friendly for some.

Follow these steps:

Step 1: Start TestDisk and select "Create" to generate a new log file.

Start TestDisk

Step 2. You will see a list with all the detected drives. Select an external hard drive to target the lost partition. Press the Enter key to proceed.

Step 3. Select Analyze to check the current partition layout and search for any lost partitions, then choose Quick Search.

Select “Analyse”

Step 4. Once all the partitions are detected, press P to view the files. To keep the partition layout, simply press Enter to continue and then type `w` to write the changes.

Press P to access the file

Step 5: The program will prompt you to confirm that the partition table has been written successfully. Select “Yes” to confirm and then reboot your computer.

Common Symptoms and Causes of Hard Drive Failure

Here are some common signs and symptoms of hard drive failure:

    • The drive makes unusual noises, such as buzzing or clicking sounds. • You experience frequent error messages or program crashes. • Your computer's overall performance is unusually erratic and unstable, such as extremely short load times for files.

Logical drive failure can be caused by any of the following:

    • Virus Attack: Malware can damage, delete, hide, or modify your data.
    • File System Corruption: File system corruption can occur due to software crashes or improper shutdowns.
    • Partition Issues: Incorrect hard drive partitioning can lead to loss of partitions and the data on them.
    • Bad Sectors: This type of damage can often be repaired using specialized data recovery applications.

Physical damage refers to harm done to any of the parts of the hard drive. The damaged part must be replaced for the hard drive to function properly again. This type of failure includes scratched platters, worn out read/write heads, short-circuited circuit boards, and burned-out chips.

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