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Recover data from a damaged HDD
Have you ever damaged your or others’ hard disk drive? We can not access files or folders saved on the hard drive at the previous time if it was damaged. What if those original contents were important or valuable? Have you ever wanted to get them back to view them again? As a matter of fact, it is not a big deal that meet a damaged hard disk drive, because we may be able to recover files useful from the damaged drive to read them normally again.
Example of damaging the hard disk drive by error
My hard disk drive was damaged but I did not know what the reason was. What I have hot is that all contents stored on the drive previous become inaccessible. In other words, I can not access any information which saved on it at the original time. I do not care whether I can use the hard disk drive or not, but I need to view some previous files saved on it. Can you kindly help me? By the way, I have tried some ways to access them according my classmates advices, but failed. –Susie from Washington
How to retrieve files from the damaged hard disk drive with data recovery software
The way to get files back from the damaged hard disk drive is to use the data recovery software, a tool to retrieve the lost information. So we can try to ask the data recovery tool for help after knowing the hard drive was damaged. Here are the steps to use the data recovery program as follows:
Recover data from Hard drive
Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Various data loss situations we may meet when use the hard drive
It has known to all of us that it is not available that access files or folders stored on the hard disk drive at the previous time if it was damaged. In other words, the damaged hard disk is unable to be used to access information. It is not a piece of pleasant news for us if those original contents were vital or crucial. But as a matter of fact, besides the damaged drive case, there are some other data loss problems we may meet during the process of using the hard disk drive. For example:
1. The hard disk drive was infected by virus. Do you know that some files may contain harmful matters such as virus and worms which would infect the hard disk drive on which those suspicious contents saved? Those files may be come from the internet, or they may be copied from other storage devices, and so on. We should be careful to avoid the virus attacks problem because information may become inaccessible after it though we can try to restore them with data recovery tool.
2. The hard disk was formatted by accident. We may lose files off the hard disk drive by mistake. For example, the hard drive may be formatted accidentally or contents on the hard disk drive may be deleted by error. No matter how the information was erased off the hard disk drive, we may be able to get them back under the help of data recovery program.
3. The file system of HDD turned to raw file system. Raw is a kind of system error and we can not use the hard disk drive normally if it was raw file system. What’s more, we need to format the raw drive and convert it to ntfs, fat32 or other file system normally if we wanted to use it normally again. But we can perform data recovery on the raw drive at first if files on it previously were vital.
4. Other data loss cases we may encounter when use the hard disk drive.
Types of files may be restored from the damaged HDD
Files like pictures, movies, songs, videos, audios, and other types of files can be stored on the hard disk drive easily and quickly. As the same, we may be able to retrieve all of them after the hard drive being damaged with the help of data restoration tool.
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