You Definitely Need A Good Hard Drive Disaster Recovery Plan
- Chapter 1 – The Most Useful Hard Drive Disaster Recovery Plan 2017
- Chapter 2 – Causes of Hard Drive Disaster and Useful Tips
- Chapter 3 – Summary
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- User Comments
Content:
Yes, you can find many disaster recovery plans and data recovery services if you search on the internet after data loss disaster occurred. Which one is the best? Does the first one work best for you? Definitely not, you should choose the most suitable solution to perform hard drive data recovery in different cases.
Now, we're going to offer a comprehensive hard drive disaster recovery plan to help you out from almost all common data loss disasters. You may as well analyze your problem first and then choose the solution that is most appropriate for your case.
Chapter 1 – The Most Useful Hard Drive Disaster Recovery Plan 2017
Have no plan to recover your data after a disaster like hard drive clicking noise happens to you? Don't worry; let's look into the specific business recovery plan and disaster recovery procedures now.
Step 1 – Turn to Backup If You Have Any
As you can easily find, backup forms an important part of IT disaster recovery plan and disaster recovery process. What does this mean? Whenever a disaster happens and you need to recover hard drive data, a complete and up-to-date backup would be a "panacea"; it makes hard disk recovery all too easy and accurate.
So if you have backups, you should resort to them to handle with the data loss problem immediately. After all, data recovery like forensic data recovery is a quite urgent task.
Step 2 – Turn to MiniTool Power Data Recovery If Backup Doesn't Work
Yet, as you are about to see, there's no backup (or the backup is not the latest version) is the most common case. At this time, you have no choice but to rely on whatever solutions you can find. Noticing this, we strongly recommend using different functions in MiniTool Power Data Recovery to deal with different hard drive data loss disaster. As the best business disaster recovery plan without backup, MiniTool Power Data Recovery wins the favor of countless people. It makes you a data recovery specialist!
After downloading the MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition V7.0, you should do two things.
One is installing the software to a safe place (don't install it on the drive with lost files).
The other is choosing one function that is the most suitable for your case from the main window. Please make a quick decision and start recovery at once.
Step 3 – Confirm the Disaster Type
- Delete files permanently from hard drive: if the disaster only refers to the accidental deletion, definitely you don't need a data recovery company; on the contrary, you're able to recover deleted files easily with the help of "Undelete Recovery" function of Power Data Recovery.
- Format a partition by mistake: there're often two causes for the accidental formatting. One is that you open Windows Disk Management, trying to manage partitions in a better way, but clicking on format by mistake; the other is that you plan to reformat a partition to change file system of it, but you choose the wrong one to perform formatting on. If you're the victim of those 2 cases or if the computer hard drive has been damaged due to virus invasion or ransomware attack, you should choose "Damaged Partition Recovery" to start recovery.
- Accidentally delete a partition: likewise, when people are managing disks & partitions in Disk Management or by using third-party management tool, they tend to make mistakes and delete a useful partition mistakenly. Besides, a partition may disappear suddenly due to virus attack or other unknown reasons. After that, people will lose access to all files originally saved on that drive. At this time, "Lost Partition Recovery" could help.
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If you are looking forward to retrieving missing files after a virus attack, you may as well read How To Recover Files Hidden By A Virus Easier & Faster. However, if you're curious about how to get back files from ransomware, you should read Should We Recover Files From Ransomware – Is It Safe instead.
Step 4 – Recover Files from Hard Drive under Guidance
Firstly, you should click on the module that is most suitable for your data loss case. After clicking on the function from the main interface, you'll enter the corresponding operating interface.
Secondly, you'll see the following partition/disk selecting interface. In this page, you should select the partition that includes your files needing to be recovered (if you choose "Lost Partition Recovery" in step 1, you'll need to select a disk right now). Then, you may press "Full Scan" button to search for lost files sector by sector or press "Open" button to see and recover some files directly (if your files are lost due to partition reformatting, "Full Scan" is your best choice).
Thirdly, you should wait for the completion of full scan (wait for the progress bar to go to 100%) since it will take some time.
Fourthly, open the listed partitions to see whether they contain the files you need. If you do find need files, you should check them and press "Save" button to set a safe storage path (choose a place that has no lost file); if you can't find all the files you need, you may press "Back" button and browse other found partitions.
At last, you can go to the certain place to see whether all files are recovered successfully. If you're satisfied with the recovery result, you should close the software; if you're not satisfied with the result, please repeat the recovery process by using the same function or another function.
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By the way, if the disaster occurs on a RAID array, you should read The Method For RAID Recovery You Wish You Know Before to get close to more details about data recovery on RAID.
Step 5 – Find Data Recovery Company to Have a Try
Unfortunately, MiniTool Power Data Recovery may fail to help you when you need to finish data recovery from a hard disk that is physically damaged. At this time, a professional data recovery agency becomes a wonderful choice. It will open the disk under sterile conditions if it's necessary, to try to help you get back all missing data. However, the disadvantages are obvious:
b). the cost of this kind of hard drive data recovery service is very expensive.
c). there maybe still some files that can't be found by an experienced data recovery company.
Chapter 2 – Causes of Hard Drive Disaster and Useful Tips
As you know, the causes for hard drive disaster can be divided into mainly 2 categories: software fault (also known as logical fault) and hardware fault (also known as physical fault). Here, we'll briefly introduce some common causes of these two types.
Software Fault
Actually, the software fault refers to the failure that is associated with the file system. As you know, the write and read of hard disk data are achieved through the file system. Therefore, if the file system is damaged, the computer will not be able to find the files and data on hard disk.
The file system consists of mainly three parts.
b). Boot sector/superblock: they define the most important parameters of the disk partition/volume.
c). File index and Metadata: the data and files saved on the hard disk are distributed according to a certain structure. If this structure is destroyed, the complete file or data does not exist.
1. Improper human operations
2. Internal storage conflict
3. System crash
4. Virus attack
5. Software conflict
6. Incorrect system configuration
Hardware Fault
Hardware fault refers to the hardware damage which will prevent the hard drive from running/identifying properly. Hard disk components include circuit board, firmware, head, disk, motor, and so on; all those components may be damaged sometimes.
1. Electricity failure: the system and components are not powered, or only partially powered.
2. Firmware corrupt: the firmware is a hardware program that controls the normal operation of the hard disk; it is regarded as the "brain" of the hard disk.
3. Platter scratch: the platter is the carrier of the saved data. Bad sectors may be generated due to aging or scratches during hard disk usage.
5. Components and chip failure: the components and the chip may fail, loose, have poor contact or fall off. They may not work properly due to overheating.
6. Head and motor failure: the head will get aging and become deformation; the motor will be burnt and stuck. Those things will make the hard disk completely scrapped and can't be repaired.
7. Jumper and switch failure: the off or wrong jumper connection between the system and the components/the printed circuit board and the wrong switch settings could lead to an abnormal system configuration.
8. Component work failure: the main components of the computer (such as monitor, keyboard, disk drive and optical drive) may fail, resulting in the improper working of the system.
9. System hardware compatibility failure: this depends on whether the hardware components and a variety of computer chips can cooperate with each other or not and whether there is consistency in aspects of speed, frequency and temperature or not.
10. Natural disaster: this includes flood, typhoon, hail, rainstorm, earthquake, landslide, snow slide, etc.
4 Useful Tips
- Be cautious when using data recovery software: please choose the reliable one which is suitable for your current situation and avoid repeating the operations by using a lot of software blindly.
- Try your best to avoid the read and write operations on the hard drive after data loss disaster.
- Data recovery is not a 100 % thing, so you'd better backup important files regularly.
- A good and comprehensive hard drive disaster recovery plan is necessary, even if you're not suffering from data loss disaster at this moment.
Chapter 3 – Summary
When hard drive disaster hits you, don't act like an ant on a hot pot; the situation may not be as serious as you think. The right things to do after the hard drive was broken or hard drive data were lost are: stay calm and resort to a great recovery plan at once. Do exactly what the plan tells you to do to finish computer data recovery.
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