Just like your brain, that stores various events of your life and data that you want to memorize, the hard drive of your computer as well stores all your invaluable files, even quite better than your brain. All the files, folders, pictures, songs, etc that you store on your computer are saved on its hard drive. In addition, as hard drive is a non- volatile memory, it does not lose data even when the power is lost. Moreover, you can remove and modify your data any number of times without affecting the integrity of your drive.
However, this does not mean that hard drive does not fail or encounter data loss. Being electro-mechanical device, a hard drive, as well can be dead or become inaccessible anytime. It too has life span, but you cannot define it how much. Generally, it is seen that your working defines the life span of your drive. Despite that, a common age of a hard drive is 5-6 years. Therefore, it is recommended to always maintain backup of your data on an external drive, so that you can easily restore your files and folders as soon as your drive becomes inaccessible.
Therefore, if your system encounters any of the below mentioned symptoms, you must understand that your hard drive can get failed any time:
Symptoms of Hard Drive Failure:
- Your system hangs or freezes constantly.
- Typical computer operations take longer time than ever. For example the opening, closing, or saving a file is taking long time than expected.
- Regular booting issues. The booting issues generally occur when there are bad sectors on your hard drive.
- Occurrence of Blue Screen of Death on regular basis.
If your hard drive is showing any of these symptoms, then you should backup your data instantly as it can be damaged any time.
However, you should not worry if you have encountered data loss or inaccessibility of data followed by these symptoms and do not have backup of your invaluable files, because you can recover lost data from hard drive with the help of a professional data recovery software.
Efficient Windows data recovery software can recover data lost due to any reason. The simple intuitive user interface of an efficient tool enables you to perform the recovery of your lost data without any trouble. Most of the efficient hard drive data recovery utilities provide free demo version and paid full version of their software. You can get to know about the features and functionalities of the software with the demo, and purchase the license, if you get satisfied by the demo.
