Data Recovery : Simple But Important Things To Remember
It as an unallocated space with no file system written to it at all but of course there is a file system here and there is data on it. it’s just corrupted so again you’re going to need to use a data recovery program like R-studio to scan the disk identify. what file system was in use and then pull the data off of it although.
If you know for sure which file system was in use you could skip that part and speed up the recovery process a little bit. you’re then going to need another drive to temporarily store your data on it but once all of the data is off you can then re-format. the drive using the same file system type that was used before and then move all of the data back onto it and then the drive is essentially good as new with all your data intact but what about when a drive has something worse than a software issue.
What if it has a firmware problem well if the firmware is the problem. then it’s probably not something that you’re going to be able to solve at home unless of course you happen to have one of these things because your operating system. it is designed to work with a hard disk firmware that is well working on a normal pc. it’s not going to be able to detect the drive. when the firmware is corrupted but the rapid star data recovery tool is designed to expect some kind of firmware problems and so it is still able to read data off of a drive.
That has corrupted firmware but then what about something even more severe than this what about when your hard drive has a physical issue and you start hearing the clicking and scratching of doom hopefully your ears aren’t bleeding too much from that clip. when this happens specifically when you have a very rhythmic clicking like in the beginning of that video. it usually means that something is wrong with your drive’s reed right head.
It probably can’t figure out where the data is supposed to start so it spins up attempting to read some data off it and then it fails and then it starts up again in a continuous loop of failure. if something like this were to occur you’re probably going to need some professional help. what the professionals would typically do to resolve an issue like this is to take the drive apart replace any components inside like the read write heads from donor drives and then they would make a bit from bit copy of the data that’s on the dead drive onto a new one once it is readable again and then they can give the customer.
