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User Scenario: Hard Drive Failure and Data Loss
Disk Cloning for Data Recovery
Tips for Keeping Hard Disk Healthy
Suffering from a corrupted or physically damaged hard drive can be a tough situation since every action you perform on the disk may cause additional data loss. Follow this guide from EaseUS software to maximize the chance of getting data back from the failing drive.
In today's digital age, data is valuable yet vulnerable. The critical documents, cherished photos, or important work files saved on an internal or external hard drive can easily get lost if the storage device is failed, corrupted, or damaged.
If you see some signs, such as overheating, strange sounds, corrupted data files, system slowdown or crash, and a blue screen of death, be aware that your hard drive may be broken.
Once these symptoms exist, you need to stop reading and writing files on this disk immediately. Otherwise, data on the hard drive can be overwritten, and the chance of getting data back is slimer. You'd better perform a data recovery as soon as possible.
There can be various significant files on the damaged hard drive. To preserve data from the disk to the fullest extent, do not repair the disk directly without specialized knowledge. There may be only one chance to get data back. Mistaken operations may reduce data integrity and destroy bits of history that cannot be recovered.
What you are recommended to do is clone the failing hard drive immediately. This will create a 100% identical copy of the original drive, including the system, files, folders, applications, and everything. Then, recover data from disk image instead of from the original disk.
See some benefits of recovering data from disk image:
To clone the failing hard drive to another functional device, use professional disk cloning software like EaseUS Disk Copy.
Its sector-by-sector clone technology helps you copy a drive bit for bit, including operating systems, applications, and personal data.
If your hard drive has encountered severe bad sectors, EaseUS Disk Copy can skip them and stop using them on your failing drive to prevent further damage.
In short, to save you time and increase the chances for successful data recovery, clone the original disk and recover data from the disk image. You can seek help from a professional data recovery service, data recovery software, or DIY yourself if you can afford the risk.
In the last part of this article, let's talk about how to keep your hard drives and SSDs healthy and extend their lifespan. Here are a few practices that can help minimize wear and tear and reduce the risk of failure.
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