6 Worst Reasons of Hard Disk Failure

Recently took back a customer's desktop pc. It couldn't turn on. So, first thing is to test if the harddisk is detecting. I use a boot up disk and check the status. Even before it reaches the boot disk, A message appeared, Harddisk Falure! 

Oh dear. Next step is to yank out the harddisk and attach it separately on another working computer, and in hope to still be able to read it and try to retrieve and back up data from it. It was not promising as initial connection, already not reading the harddisk. A trick I use, is to connect it with a working harddisk and immediately connect back with the "about to failed" harddisk. It works sometimes, in this case, it did work and I can see the content of the harddisk. But unfortunately, the data still cannot be copied out. It only displays the folder or the file but the data cannot be copied or transferred out. Its a severed harddisk failure.

All data lost. I did come across some companies with specialized tools to be able to recover back the data but unfortunately, the price to do so is extremely expensive. And also, not sure even if the data is recovered, whether it can still be used, is no guarantee.

So, what I want to share is some info I picked off from the internet. Some may still be recoverable but some is forever gone. What and how the reasons to harddisk failure come about and how we can over come the problem.

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/6-worst-reasons-of-hard-disk-failure/

Here Are 3 Ways to Check Hard Disk Health on Windows

A while ago. I had a customer whose pc had problem. Couldn't start with an error "harddisk not found". I took it back to check and apparently the harddisk has died and cannot even detect it. I tried the "wrap with newspaper and place in feezer" which worked on some of the SATA portable harddisks before. It still doesn't work.

Another expensive way if you really need the data content in the harddisk is to give it to the professional experts. They will charge probably a couple thousand ringgit. And that too, nothing is guaranteed that you will be able to recover your data and if the data is usable.

Well, how do we know how healthy is our harddisk? I found this link. Of course, it doesn't guarantee that it will tell me that the harddisk is healthy now might not be tomorrow or day after.

The point is just to have backups of backups. Cloud might be one of the solution but even cloud backup solution doesn't give us 100% security safe. Somehow, we would have to have endless backups of backups of backups..etc.

Anyway, here is the link for 3 ways to help you check your computer's harddisk health.

Original Post by MakeTechEasier