What are some symptoms that your hard drive failed or may have lost data?
Data device failure can be the cause of physical damage to the hard drive / storage device or logical corruption to the file or operating system. This damage would prevent the device from being accessible by the host OS (operating system) or computer BIOS; resulting in lost or inaccessible data. The following are some symptoms to look for:
1. Clicking Sound
Clicking sound or strange scraping sounds coming from the device or computer – These noises could be due to head crash or damage to the actuator arm. This problem occurs due to physical hard drive damage.
2. Can't Detect
System can not detect hard drive – If your system is unable to detect the hard drive then the issue could be the result of disk controller failure. This would categorize under physical data loss.
3. Not Spinning
Hard disk drive not spinning
4. Smoke / Burnt
Smoke was observed or burnt smell
5. Corrupt Firmware
Firmware has been corrupt
6. Components Fail
Hard disk drive components failed
7. Won't Boot
Computer won’t boot or you get bluescreen
8. Water Damage
Water Damage
9. Fire Damage
Fire Damage
10. Raid Failure
RAID controller failure or configuration loss
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