5 top causes & solutions of hard drive failures
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•Most will be confused about how to fix the failed hard drive and restore their vital data.•Of course they can call in a repair tool, such
as resorting to a PST repair tool to restore lost Outlook data. •But the hard drive is more difficult to fix,
let alone to retrieve the data.•Thus we should set out to prevent the failure
by getting familiar with the reasons of hard drive failures.
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1. Physical Damages
•Physical damages, like heat, shock, water and etc. can damage the hard drives severely .•For heat, unavailable ventilation and
unbefitting CPU fan are 2 common arch-criminals.•Besides, drive shock is a main cause that can
trigger head crash and leads to data loss as well.
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Solutions：•With regard to heat, make sure that CPU fans
can work properly to control the ideal temperature of the processor. •As water and shock are more difficult for
people to prevent, you should go easy on the hard drives.
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2. Power Failures•Power outages, power surges as well as
brownouts are all power failures.•Although power failures are commonplace,
they can result in big data corruptions with a high rate. •For instance, when abrupt power outage
occurs, the computer will shut up compulsively and improperly, which will pose damages to the hard drive.
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•Go opt for a reliable UPS which can give some extra time for you to shut down the system when power fails. •What more, you’d better keep a good habit of
closing the computer when you are not using it.
Solutions：
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3. Mechanical Failures
•When you are not able to start the system, or even cannot access some files or folders, then you are likely to meet mechanical failures.•This kind of issues always occur inside the
hard drive, such as bad sectors, faulty read-write head.• If you can also hear grinding noises, then it
means that the old drive is about to die.
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•For the sake of protecting your data, you should keep the system updated. •And If affordable, you can also use a new
drive to replace the old one and move your data to the new one.
Solutions：
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4. Logical Failures
•Logical failures combine many factors like Virus infection, human errors and corrupted files, etc.•Not only does it can slow down the system or
trigger disk errors, but also could lead to computer stuck in blue screen, system crashes and so on.
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•As it will firstly result in data loss, you ought to back up your most precious data in advance.
Solutions：
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5. Manufacturer Faults•There is a case that the new hard drive
cannot be recognized by system or fails in the boot process.• It means that you probably buy an unusable
drive.
Solutions：• Just contact with the manufacturer to solve
the issue.
