How to Solve Hard Drive Error Code 0142 Issue

What Hard Drive Error Code 0142 Mean?

The error code 0142 signifies that your hard drive is corrupted and no longer be able to store data. Mostly this error code appears when you try to diagnose your unbootable system. Whenever you face this error issue, it signifies that your hard drive is dead.

Nowadays, this error code becomes a very common issue after BSOD. Recently, my friend has shared his experience with me. He faced the same error code issue. He had dell 1764 laptop which was running fine for many years. One day when he turned ON his computer and shocked to see that only Blue screen and cursor are only visible to him. He discussed this issue with me, I suggest him to troubleshoot this issue by booting his system with the help of repair disk.

Here are the following steps he had followed to troubleshoot the issue:

• Insert windows repair disk to boot his computer.
• Pressed F12 key to boot his system with repair disk.
• Select the correct time and keyboard type.
• Clicked on Repair your computer in lower left corner
• Select troubleshoot from choose an option screen
• Clicked on advance option in troubleshoot screen
• After this Command Prompt opened and he run the following commands.
• Type BOOTREC /FIXMBR, and then press ENTER.
• Type BOOTREC /FIXBOOT, and then press ENTER.
• Type BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD, and then press ENTER.

After executing the last step, Blue screen windows came up with the error code 0142 and boom.

He was feeling like lost as the drive which was failed had his years of important data.

How to Fix Error Code 0142 in Dell Laptop?

This error can be fixed by troubleshooting the “custom test”, this test helps to identify the issue with the hard drive and give the reliable result. 

Follow the Below Steps to Run the Custom Test:

• Turn OFF your system and then turn it ON again and repeatedly press F12 key.
• Boot menu will appear on the computer screen, highlight Diagnostics option and then press enter.
• Now press the tab key to highlight the test system and continue to the diagnostic system.

Note: Sometimes the error occurs at time of the custom test, then you can press Y or N to continue or discontinue the memory test. 

• Suppose, you have press Y to continue the memory test, then it will take hardly 10 to 20 minutes to complete the Express Test.

If this doesn’t help you then there is one option left, just remove your hard drive from the system and replace it with the new one. If that ruined drive holds your precious data and you want to recover it then download any free data recovery software. Let’s suppose you have downloaded Stellar Phoenix free data recovery software to recover data from your damaged hard drive, then connect that drive as the external one and start the simple recovery process.

Conclusion: You may lose your data anytime without any warning, so always keep the backup of your precious data to make yourself relax and tension free.

How to Recover Lost Data with Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery Free Edition

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.