Crashed Hard Drive Recovery

Hard drive can crash due to a number of reasons which can be broadly classified into two groups, physical failure and logical failure. Regardless the cause for hard drive crash, it does not mean the end of your crucial data, the data is still recoverable.

Symptoms of hard disk crash

1. Computer will not boot
2. Error messages like "No Fixed Disk Present" or "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
3. Blue or black screen after power up (commonly referred as Blue Screen of Death)
4. Clicking/ticking/humming/grinding and crunching noises coming from the drive
5. System often reboots, restarts, hangs or freezes
6. "Drive not formatted" and “Operating system not found”, messages

When you experience any of the above symptoms with your computer the first thing you should do is determine whether the problem is with the hard drive mechanical components or is it a logical failure.