5 Simple Things That Can Alert You When Your Hard Drive is About to Crash

1. Blue Screen of Death - Memory dump screen, usually its bound to some file system corruption or hard drive errors.

2. Slow Access of data - Opening of a regular file which would usually open fast enough is now taking a lot more time. Technically, most of the times its due to bad sectors.

3. Time to Boot Increases - System boots up really slow.

4. Drive making sound - When the drive is in use and if you hear any sound or intermittent clicking.

5. Hang - The system gets hanged / freezed quite often.


When you experience any of these make sure, you start taking a backup. And look fo a new drive to continue working.

Increasing storage --- Increase in Crashes

Most of us who are tech savvy need more storage space, for games, movies, music, pics, ebooks, work stuff etc..

Good news is that there are 500GB and 1TB drives are available. Some of these high end storages are usually external devices in a box, which consist of two 500GB drives to make it 1TerraB using RAID configuration.

Bad News, dont just rely on these..just because its raid, Raid devices can also fail. A friend who is a pro photograher in SFO lost some of his latest work, without any backup. Avoid disasters, keep backups. If things fail try Raid Recovery Professionals.

Data Recovery- The known and unknown facts

Data Recovery is the process of rescuing the data from the spoiled or inaccessible storage media when the media reaches a situation where.....

Physical Damage
Physical damage is the corruption of the physical parts of the storage media........

Logical Damage
The Logical damages occur more commonly when compared to that of the Physical damage. This is primarily caused due improper maintenance where the file system structures are prevented from being completely written to the storage medium. ......

For more information on most typical data recovery cases and various data recovery software available click on the respective links......

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Dont let others use your data

Computers get thrown away, old hard drives are just discarded. To protect data, we format the drive to ensure everything is deleted.

Sorry....Formatting or Deleting does'nt help.

Try using a software to Santize.. wipe and erase your hard drive clean before discarding it.

Try Professional Data Eraser Software An Anti Data Recovery Software.

Data Recovery Tips 101

If you are encountering a data loss situation it is important that you are well informed on how to handle it, so as to minimize the risk of aggravating the situation by taking actions that may reduce chances of data recovery.

You know you are facing a data loss situation when:

• You suddenly encounter a situation where you are unable to access data from your system or backup, which was functioning quite well until now.
• Your data has been accidentally deleted or the data control structures have been overwritten erroneously.
• Your data has been corrupted or you are unable to access the data stored in media due to physical damage or problems in the operating system.

Here are a few things you need to keep in mind, on taking your first steps in such a situation:

• Do not panic.
• Do not restart the machine.
• Do not use any application/program that accesses (alters) the problem media in any way.
• Do not switch on any device that shows obvious signs of physical damage.
• Shut down any system/device that makes non-customary grinding and clicking noises when operated.
• Do not open the hard disk or any such physical media device on try to repair it own your own.
• Assess the situation. Observe and record the sequence of actions performed, events that occurred that may have caused the problem. Document this information using our preliminary assessment form.
• Use Data Recovery Services firm or Data Recovery Software
• Wrap the defective unit in anti-static foam or anti-static bubble wrap paper and seal package securely and ship to your vendor.
• Use a carrier that provides you proof of delivery when shipping the product to a services firm.