HARD DRIVE RECOVERY

Across the world, instances of data loss continue to rise, thus complicating the process of hard drive data recovery and making this a process of utmost importance. Sadly, there are two types of computer users in this world: those who understand the computer system because they respect the work it does for them and those who don't care to know the details as long as work gets done.

Whether you belong to either of the categories, it is important to read this discussion because it would give you the confidence to deal with a major disaster relating to hard drive data loss. As the storage space for IDE drives increased, the prices hit almost rock bottom following which the hard drive manufacturers explored ways to bring down the production costs of these mass storage mediums.

The end result is that more data is being stored in smaller spaces. Today's hard drives are competent to store about 500 times the data stored on the drives of computer hard drives systems two decades earlier. With such amazing increase in storage capacities, the issue of data loss is more critical.

The materials which these manufacturers used for coating the surface of the disks were naturally subject to this cost-cutting. No wonder, professionals who recover data are quick to point out the fact that inexpensive hard drives are most vulnerable to head crashes. This is because small minded manufacturers who focus only on cutting costs use very bad quality, cheap materials which are naturally prone to develop head crashes.

Although you may be wondering why a "newbie" is being subjected to this intense discussion, remember that there are certain things you can do to tackle the post-data-loss scenario so here are some simple tips for a successful hard drive data recovery:

It is important to stop using a problem hard disk or storage media from which you want to recover data. Consider this as a rule of utmost importance because each time you attempt either to boot up or start a system, you are worsening every possibility of data recovery, literally. Work on the problem hard drive only after attaching it to another computer as a secondary/primary slave.

Be aware of the fact that even a harmless process like browsing, without saving any files of downloading can prove to be extremely hazardous because your operating system writes and over-writes data to the hard disk, continuously. So this is again something to consider.

If you are trying to recover data on your own, the first thing you should clearly be aware of is not to disturb the problem hard disk. Data recovery software should not be loaded on the problem disk. What can be done without any hesitation is this: simply load the data recovery software on the good hard disk of the computer to which you have attached your problem hard disk as a primary/secondary slave.

After you have attached the problem hard disk, you can go on to create an image of the disk, using a disk imaging utility and work only on the image thus created. This would make sure that the data on the hard disk remains intact. This leaves you completely free to check out any number of data recovery software on the image of the problem hard disk.

Sometimes, the problem of spindle motor sticking may have cropped up. Manually spinning the motor would free the drive, so this would permit it to spin long enough to save your files. This can be easily done by opening up case and spinning the platters in a manual way.

If you have the habit of repeatedly trying to boot up the hard drive, this may, on highly exceptional situations, resurrect a drive with a serious problems as this continual switching on and off is too hard on the other components as well. It is best to wait at least 2o seconds before going on to switch off and switch on.
With this discussion, you would be better prepared to handle hard drive data recovery than ever before.