How to Fix The Unreadable Hard Drive

How to repair a damaged hard drive is tricky. But can try to fix it and of course the first understand how to fix it and also the level of damage.

Tricky to fix the hard drive is a sentence that is a little less convincing. But that was the fact that it was successful or not repair the damaged hard drive depending on how severe / level of damage to the hard drive.

Hard drive is a vital and important role of hardware on a computer or laptop. Without a hard drive or laptop computer operating system may not be able to walk. And according to the writing team for the hard drive is not physically damaged or burned on the mainboard then there is still hope to save hard drive along with the data in it.



In general, damage to the hard drive can be categorized into 4 levels.

Level 1: Damage bad sectors.
How to handle it:

• Early treatment can use the command FORMAT C: / C (adjusted with a drive that will be formatted).
  / C is used to clean up the cluster are damaged.
• If step 1 does not work then use Disk Manager of each hard drive manufacturer.
• If step 2 is not successful use HDDREG software, please download it on the internet.
• If step 3 does not work try the way Zero Low Level Format or File.
  If you still can not, then do the distribution sector and do not use the hard drive again damaged sectors.

Level 2: Damage to the disk partition and data loss.
This can happen due to a virus or wrong way to use a utility program. There are important things that must be considered when will restore the lost disk partition, the File System type and capacity.

FAT file system is easier to handle than NTFS or Linux File System. Therefore check beforehand using FDISK or Disk Manager. After completion of the check, the possibility can restore disk partition using Acronis Disk Director software, Handy Recovery, Stellar Phoniex and others.

Level 3: Hard drive detected by the BIOS, but can not be used.
This happens because it is caused by a firmware problem. It usually occurs on the Maxtor brand hard drives with the series names of the gods. To fix can be downloaded firmware program from the hard drive brand website.

Level 4: Hard drive not detected by the BIOS.
This is the most severe level. Perhaps to be somewhat personalized electronic components therein. Well for fix, its following procedure:

• Check the electrical current that flows to the hard drive.
• Replace some IC on the mainboard HDD.
• Open hard drive cover and check the position of Head disk.
• How the other more extreme by cannibals with another hard drive with the same brand.