Search This Blog

Monday, June 4, 2012

How to recover data from corrupted hard drive

A hard drive is the most basic part of the computer systems, be it a desktop, a laptop, or any other hand-held device. It contains all the data that is present on your system. That is the reason, you should take utmost care of the hard disk failing which you would find yourself in a soup. There are lots of reasons because of which the hard disk becomes corrupt thereby making the data inaccessible or deleted. For such cases, you should use certain methods to safeguard your data. However, even if you lose your data or the hard disk is inaccessible then you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery softwareto recover the inaccessible data.

There are various reasons that cause your hard drive to fail or become inaccessible. Some of the most prominent causes and their resolutions are:

• Virus: Lot of times, our hard disk gets corrupted by viruses. Such viruses are specifically designed to destroy the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the active partition. Because of which, the system is unable to start and the hard disk becomes inaccessible because of this. You should regularly use an antivirus application to safeguard your hard disk from such nuisances. However, you should ensure that the antivirus has latest virus definitions installed from the Internet.

• Corrupted files: In your computer system, several kinds of processes can corrupt the hard disk. For instance, abruptly shutting down computer repeatedly before closing the opened programs or system files can result in inaccessible hard drive. For this case, you should run the in-built ScanDisk, Disk Defragmentar, and Disk Cleanup utilities regularly to fix minor corruption cases.

• Age: Most of the crash cases are caused due to the old age or excessive use of the hard disk. The hard disks, like any other thing, do wear down with age. In such cases, you should restore your valuable data to a new hard disk.

However, if you face case of inaccessible hard disk even after using the aforementioned techniques then you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery software to recover the trapped data. Such read-only tools enable hard drive recovery using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a hard drive data recovery software that recovers lost, deleted, or formatted data from inaccessible hard drives. It restores data from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. Also, this hard drive recovery utility is able to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard drive, pen drives, iPods, external hard drives, etc. In addition, this hard drive data recovery tool recovers deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Add To Google BookmarksStumble ThisFav This With TechnoratiAdd To Del.icio.usDigg ThisAdd To RedditTwit ThisAdd To FacebookAdd To Yahoo

0 comments:

Post a Comment