Hard Drive Faults and Solutions

Many people often store a large amount of important data in their mobile hard drives. Once the mobile hard drive fails and the security of the data in the hard drive is affected, every user will be anxious.

There are some more difficult physical faults that we need to find professionals to solve, but there are some more common faults that we can fix by ourselves. Today we will learn about the complete list of mobile hard disk failures. When we use the mobile hard disk next time, we will not be so panicked when encountering a failure.

Part 1:What are the faults of hard disk?

The hard drive failures we usually encounter mainly include the following:

1. The hard disk cannot be recognized; the main reason for this type of failure is insufficient power supply of the USB interface. We only need to find the cause of insufficient power supply of the USB interface and then repair it.

2. The file or directory is damaged and cannot be read; this type of failure is mainly caused by the computer suddenly losing power or illegally shutting down the mobile hard disk when using it, or the user unplugging the mobile hard disk directly after using it. At this time we can repair the mobile hard drive through disk check.

3. The mobile hard disk circuit board has an error; due to poor circuit design, poor chip quality or improper use by the user, the circuit board may not work properly. At this time, we'd better seek professional help.

4. The mobile hard disk firmware is wrong; in this case, we need to find the manufacturer to solve it.

Mobile hard drives may have various failures

5. A system error when using GHOST causes partitions to be merged and hard disk data to be lost; at this time, we can try to use professional data recovery software to recover the data or seek professional help.

6. The mobile hard disk accidentally fell to the ground or suffered a violent impact, causing the hard disk to not recognize the disk; for such failures, we can only solve them through manual repair.

7. The hard disk has too many bad sectors; if it is logical bad sectors, we can select the system disk on the computer, then right-click and select the "Properties" option, then click "Start Check" in the "Tools" tab and check "Automatically" Repair file system errors" option and "Scan and try to repair bad sectors" option, and finally click "Start" to repair.

If it is a physical bad sector, it is recommended that you seek professional help at this time.

8. Frequent reading slowness, I/O errors or computer blue screen crashes occur during the file copying process. At this time, it means that the mobile hard disk has physical bad sectors. We should back up the data as soon as possible. Here we can choose to use "iDATAPP PC Data Recovery" helps us back up data.

Part 2:Hard drive data recovery

When we encounter a failure while using a mobile hard drive, we should not panic, especially if the hard drive makes a clicking noise, do not continue to power on the hard drive. For the safety of the data in the hard drive, when we need the help of professionals, it is best not to do it ourselves.

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If the failure of the mobile hard disk is not serious enough to require manual repair, as long as there is no data overwriting in the hard disk, we can use professional data recovery software to recover the data in the hard disk. Here, you can choose to download iDATAPP PC Data Recovery software to scan for recovery.

Steps to Recover lost data on hard drive:

Step 1: Download and install iDATAPP PC Data Recovery on your computer, and connect your hard drive to your computer with a USB data cable.

Step 2: Select your hard drive to scan. Of course, you can also choose a deep scan.

Step 3: Selectively restore the scanned data.

Part 3:Conclusion

When your hard drive has problems or data is lost for some reason, the above article has comprehensively analyzed its various causes and methods of recovering lost data. We only need to follow the steps to complete simple operations.