Recover data from a crashed hard drive

We have lots of important data stored on our hard drive. It can be music file, audio file, word file, excel sheet, etc.

So due to hard drive crash we may lose lots of our data stored on it.

But recovery of data is possible from even a crashed hard drive.

It may seem to you that your hard drive has been crashed but it can also happen that your Mac has suffered a Boot Failure.

Steps to confirm hard drive crash or boot failure:1) Connect the crashed Mac to a working Mac using a firewire cable.2) Turn on the crashed Mac by pressing the ‘T’ key.3) Now, if the hard drive of the crashed Mac is visible then it is a problem with the OS only and not with the hard drive.4) Re-install OS in the crashed Mac and get free from this issue.

But if the HDD do not showed up then it is hard drive crash.

Is it hard drive crash or boot failure?

Types of hard drive crash

Hard drive crash

Physical damage Logical damage

Physical damage of the hard drive is a very critical situation in case of data loss.

Data recovery becomes very difficult in case of physical damage to the harddrive.

If a hard drive is making a tickling or clicking noise then it is a sure shot indication of damage to HDD. In such cases, we should not try to access or turn on the system.

Physical defect of hard drive

In logical damage, mostly there is problem either with the file system or the boot sector of the system.

The symptoms of logical defect can be if your Mac is not booting up or even if it starts booting then, it gets off in the middle of booting process.

Sometimes viruses or malwares can also affect the file system.

Logical Damage to HDD

If you have created backup, then recover data from the backup of HDD.

In case you have priorly created the image then you can use the image to do the recovery.

But, in case you have neither the backup nor the image then the only option left is to contact data recovery experts like Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery.

How to do recovery from crashed HDD

If your hard drive is logically corrupted, then you can recover it using Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery. This software will recover all your data from the logically crashed HDD.

But if the hard drive is physically damaged, then you must contact Stellar Data Recovery to fix the issue. In Stellar, the specially designed hard drive recovery rooms i.e. 100 clean room are used to recover data from the physically damaged HDD.

Recovery Tips

By:

Tom Addison

Author Bio:

Tom Addison is a data recovery expert and provides tips and tricks to recover data in the event of data loss. For any query you can contact on tomaddison19@gmail.com