Can you recover data from a broken hard drive?
Electronic devices are expensive – and that includes storage
media. The monetary value of hard drives, however, nigh-on always pales in
comparison to the emotional, practical and sentimental value of the data they
contain. This is why, when a hard drive fails, users are less concerned about
the cost of a new piece of media and instead want to find out if the data held
on it can be recovered and, if it can, what they’ll need to pay to get it back.
Well, you can click here to find out approximately how
much data recovery will cost and you can find out if your hard drive's data can be recovered below:
If you’ve dropped
your drive
If your drive has suffered physical damage the likelihood of
a full recovery is, as we’re sure you can imagine, very much affected by the
extent to which the drive’s various components have been harmed.
The good news, however, is that even when drives have
suffered significant damage, a recovery is still usually possible. We’ve
previously recovered data from drives that have been dropped, submerged in
saltwater for several days and even some that have suffered significant fire
damage.
If your drive isn’t
being recognised
Whether this is caused by a software error, virus or
anything else, the data held on the effected drive is almost certain to be
recoverable. Before you decide you need the services of a data recovery expert though,
we’d recommend you try starting your computer in safe mode as this could be a
much quicker and cheaper solution.
If it’s making a
noise
If your hard drive is making a grinding, scraping or clicking
sound, it’s probably suffered from a head crash. This occurs when the
read/write head comes into direct contact with a drive’s platters and, whilst
it’s more than capable of permanently destroying your data, the sooner you
power down your drive, the less damage there’ll be and the greater the prospect
of a full recovery.
If you’ve
accidentally deleted data
Human error is still the most common cause of data loss so,
if you’ve accidentally deleted something you wanted to keep, you’re not alone.
There’s more good news, too: the data in question is probably recoverable.
When data is initially deleted, its location is erased from
your drive’s database. The actual data itself is therefore still present and
recoverable until new data is written to this location.