Hard Drive Crash

Since their first adoption in 1956, hard disk drives have become the most common method of storing data on personal computers and servers alike.

why do hard drives crash?

Many people who suffer from a hard drive failure often wonder what causes the hard drive to fail, the term hard drive crash is commonly used to describe disk failure, however this term is generally not understood fully. 

Most of the time a hard disk failure will occur during the course of normal operation, the underlying causes for this can vary, however in relation to hard drives "crashing" this can normally be attributed to bearing failure in the drive's motor assembly. Bearing failure will cause the internal platters to move or wobble leading to the magnetic heads in the drive to come in contact with the surface and thereby cause the drive to “crash”.

Other external factors which can lead to a hard drive head crash are exposure to fire or water and sharp impacts.

Can hard drives be recovered after a head crash?

Another common question. The answer to this depends on the extent of the damage and to which areas of the drive that have been affected, light damage may be recoverable, however expect the data in the affected area to remain unrecoverable. Severe head crashes will render the drive utterly unrecoverable due to the extent of physical damage to the platter and the magnetic coating which contains the data.

Our data recovery solutions

To find out if your drive is recoverable cleardata recovery offers a free evaluation during which your drive will be examined in our specially designed clean room facilities. Once we have examined the drive we will be able to tell if your drive has suffered a head crash and if so the extent of damage and the chances of recovery. Cleardata has in-house custom developed hardware & data recovery software solutions which results in maximal data retrieval.

Note of caution:-

We would strongly advise you not to attempt any kind of data recovery on hard drive yourself especially if it has a physical fault, doing so may well render the data as lost for good.

When it comes to data recovery you couldn't be in safer hands, trust your data to the professionals and let a Cleardata Data recovery expert help you today.

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