Our hard drives store everything precious to us. Ranging from our photos to our important field of work, everything is saved on those small devices. Hard Drives are reliable, convenient and easy to use. But as is the case with any electronic device sometime they falter. Sometime we lose data due to our own mistake. Now if you have important stuff saved on this device it may a very bad time for you.

To save this happening in an aging hard drive you should keep it in good check and should keep checking for warning signs because truth be told it is not always possible to retrieve your lost data completely. Even when it does, it takes a lot of effort and patience.

Signs to check for

A hard drive is a delicate device. It consists of moving parts and a sensitive reader. It is prone to get affected by moisture, shock and sudden power failure. Even when everything is in control; with prolonged usage data sectors of a hard drive get corrupted. Our computer keeps this in check by automatically keeping a track of such sectors and not using them. But when it happens at a large scale data written on them gets lost. To prevent this a user must act proactively when first bear and tear signs are evident. A drive which is making too much noise or working very slowly is sure to give you problem in near future. A system with faulty hard drive starts giving more system failures and you may even see a blue screen of death (BSOD). If that happen with you-tread with caution. As for a couple time your system might repair itself automatically but if it happens too many times, you will lose your precious data forever.

How To Recover Lost Data from Your Hard Drive

When you end up with a dead non-functional device the first thing to check is that what kind of failure you are having. See, with so many mechanical parts it may also happen that actually your data is intact but the the mechanism which reads it has been compromised. It is both good and bad news. Good news because with the replacement of mechanical parts your data can be retrieved completely. It is also bad news because you can not do this at your own and need a technical expert to do this for you. Most of the time it is also a very costly affair.

If the data lost is due to drive corruption you may try to retrieve it using specialized softwares. Disk Warrior and fdisk are some of such specialized software. You should tread with caution while using these softwares as a little carelessness and you may end up losing all your data. It may also be the case that some virus is affecting your hard drive and there by denying you access to your data. In that case using a good anti virus may solve your problem.