How you handle signs of data loss can dramatically increase or decrease your chances of success. So once you have experience signs of potential failure its best to act quickly. In the case of a head crash, you will more than likely damage the platters and destroy critical data if you continue to power up the drive.

It’s not what you want to hear, however some drives are just beyond repair, and whether that be a physical issue or a logical issue, some drives are just simply unrecoverable. It’s been stated in other articles, but needs repeating, make sure you take good practices early on to back up and save information. It doesn’t solve the problem of disk failure, but it sure lessens the pain of needing to recover lost data.

Even if your drive seems to be functioning properly, but has suffered a logical failure, avoid running applications that may risk writing data to the drive. Some off the shelf data recovery programs do exactly that. So while you may end up with some data you need, other data may be gone forever unless you submit the drive to a qualified services company. Our suggestion is to seek professional help to recover lost data and not to try and do it yourself.

Even if your drive seems to be functioning properly, but has suffered a logical failure, avoid running applications that may risk writing data to the drive. Some off the shelf data recovery programs do exactly that. So while you may end up with some data you need, other data may be gone forever unless you submit the drive to a qualified services company. Our suggestion is to seek professional help to recover lost data and not to try and do it yourself.

If you are a Comcast customer there are some great tools at your disposal to help take a proactive stance on your system management.  Consider looking further in the Comcast virus protection tools offered as a way to manage another are of your online experience.