We all know where to find our files on the computer and they always stay there when we need them. It is very easy to assume that our important files that we have on our system always be there, where we have stored them. But actually, in reality, it is not true; the files can easily vanish from system even without giving any notice. The reason behind data loss could be anything such as accidently deletion of files, hard drive affected by the virus, hard drive bad sector, boot sector issue, etc. Whatever is the reason behind hard drive corruption but in the end, you will lose your data, maybe even the partition of the hard drive also.
If data is lost due to logical failure, then recovery of data is possible with simple manual commands or free data recovery software. Let me tell you some issue which may lead data loss issue and it's fixed.
File System Corruption: File system is used to instruct, how data is stored and retrieved on the hard drive. Once it gets corrupted then user becomes unable to access their data and the hard drive partitions turn into the raw state.
To resolve raw partition issue and get access to your data just follow below steps
• Do right click on the partition that you want to repair and recover data from
• Then Click on Properties and got to Tool tab
• After this click on check now button in error checking box
It will scan the whole partition to check and fix all errors in partition including file system corruption.
Hard drive bad sector: Bad sectors on the hard drive are those sectors which stop responding while user attempt to read or write on the hard drive. It may cause data inaccessibility issue but can be resolved by check disk command.
• To fix bad sector issue on hard drive use check disk command
• Open Run command and type cmd then enter
• Command prompt will open just wright
chkdsk E(drive name): /F (type f to fix the error) and then enter
It will scan and fix the whole drive issues.
Nothing Worked for You? Go with Free Recovery Tool!
If the above solutions doesn’t work for you then try Stellar phoenix free data recovery tool to get your lost data back. This tool has outstanding capability to recover lost data from internal as well as external hard drives. You can download this tool from here and can run it to scan the whole drive for lost data recovery.
What you can do with this free data recovery software
The tool gives four recovery options such as drive recovery, photo recovery, CD/DVD recovery and Emails recovery. You can choose any of them as per your requirement.
Note: Remember don’t download this tool on the same hard drive from which you want to recover data. If you will download the software or even do anything on the drive from which you want to do recovery then your lost data will be overwritten by the new files and you won’t get your files back.
You can choose Drive Recovery option under Data recovery tab to recover your lost or deleted data from hard drive.
If the drive is in the raw state then choose Raw Recovery option, otherwise choose any of them as per your desire to scan the hard drive for lost data recovery.
Once you have clicked on recovery button, it will scan the whole drive or partition to extract all lost files.
After scanning the whole drive, it will allow you to take preview of your lost data
You can choose your desire files and folders for recovery and click on recover button to complete recovery process. If the files are under 1 GB limit then it allows you to save your recovered files at you desire location without paying anything. If you want to recover data above than the free limit then you can convert it into paid version.
Hi Lizzy,
ReplyDeleteI have 2 TB Seagate hard drive and it is working fine, but some of the folders stored in the drive are not accessible. I think it is because of bad sectors. Can you please tell me how I can fix bad sectors and access those folders.
Hello Tom,
ReplyDeleteJust refer this blog http://harddrivefix.blogspot.in/2016/02/what-is-bad-sector-in-hard-drive-how-to.html, here I have explained all the methods to repair boot sectors.
Good Luck!!
I am having a 1TB seagate internal HDD which is nearly 4 years old and was working fine till now. But in the last few months two of my partitions got deleted automatically and became unallocated. The partition size was nearly 225 gb in each of them.
ReplyDeleteThese 2 partitions were having many movies and backups of my mobile apks and data. Though they are not much of an importance but I want to know the reason why these partition got deleted and how to recover these partitions.
I am using AMD quadcore x635 with Gig 780G mobo & 4 GB corsair ram.
I have already seen this post but as told earlier the space has become unallocated so how to recover that partition with a free apk.
ReplyDeleteHi Shakti,
DeleteThanks for asking the question.
According to the information provided by you, it seems that your hard drive is so old that it might have bad sectors now which has to be fixed. I recommend you to use the CHKDSK command to fix this. Also, if you want to recover your data, then avoid using your hard drive as this may lead to overwrite your deleted data and you’ll lose your data permanently. To escape from your problem, you can use the above software to recover your lost files. Good Luck!!!