Part 1. What is a hard drive crash? (Definition, possible reasons, effect)
A hard drive crash is a complicated problem, but we can easily define it as a breakdown of the drive when it cannot function properly, resulting in the loss or inability to get access to the stored information.
There are several reasons for a typical hard drive crash. A hard drive can malfunction simply due to its old, worn out parts. Moreover, the crash can come from the hardware overheating. Besides, being exposed for a long time under the effects of some environmental factors such as water, light or high magnetic are also capable of causing the hard drive's flaw. Another contributing components to this problem are corrupted files (for example: improperly close files, turn off your computer suddenly, or power failure can lead to the corruption of files and do great havoc to the
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It happens when your hard drive spins totally fine as usual, but your operating system, for some unknown reasons, is incapable of getting access to the stored information, or sometimes it even fails to recognize the presence of the hard disk. Before it really happens, you may want to take notice of some small yet important symptoms like slow performance or sudden loss of processing data.
Part 3. What to do when a physical hard drive crash occurs
When it comes to a physical hard drive crash, there are a lot of possible solutions to the problem. Below are 3 most feasible ones.
• Try to retrieve data and backup them to other place
In case you are still be able to boot the computer despite the crash, you are well advised not to try to restart the computer and take an attempt to copying your vital data. This practice is likely to put the failing drive under too much stress and pressure. Instead, you should move your hard drive to another system, and then use a data recovery software like Wondershare Data Recovery to retrieve your important