Hard disk drive failure

Under a hard drive crash, the sudden unavailability of data on one disk is understood the reason for this lies in the hardware of the disk. Originally this term stems from head crash, where the disk head touches the surface of the storage medium. A hard drive crash, but can, in contrast to head crash, including through

• Defects in the electronics,
• The non- starting of the motor,
• Not the mobility of the hard disk head

And the like are caused.

After a hard drive crash data need not necessarily be lost, professional data recovery companies can often recover a large part of the data by means of specific software tools and methods of data recovery.

Demarcation

Sometimes, from a user perspective also file system errors known as hard disk crash, but not in this case is the cause in the hard drive itself, but in the logical structure of the data stored on it.