Retrieve Data from Crashed SATA Hard Drive

“Yesterday repeatedly my system was showing black screen and at the same time it was getting shutdown automatically. I was unable to point out what went wrong, but by the end of day my system hard drive having SATA interface has become inaccessible. In the process of booting and re-booting my SATA hard drive got crashed it seems. Now complete data saved in that SATA hard drive has become inaccessible. Please someone suggest me a way to recover data from crashed SATA hard drive.”

If you are using SATA hard drive from long time and has not taken necessary data security measures, then usually it affects performance of respective SATA hard disk drive. Generally SATA hard drive provides faster data access and easy data transfer among various devices. SATA hard drive can hold various system application files, media files, MS Office files and many more. In case SATA hard drive get crash due to any critical aspects, then it contributes to huge amount of data loss as specified in above scenario.

Some of the reasons for SATA hard drive crash are:

  • SATA hard drive get crash as a result of regular power failures while working on respective Windows PC
  • Formation of bad sectors on SATA hard disk drive due to overusage is also considerable reason for its crash
  • Malicious viruses will infect each and every sector of SATA hard drive, thus tends to its corruption as well as crash
  • MBR corruption, file system corruption, registry or logical errors perhaps damage SATA HDD this indeed leads to its crash

Don’t be disappointed in case you have step into any above discussed scenarios and lost valuable data from crashed SATA hard disk drive. You can get back missing data from crashed SATA hard drive with the help reliable data recovery programs available on internet.

Crashed SATA hard drive recovery software:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is one among most accurate data recovery application to recover inaccessible or lost data from crashed SATA hard drive on Windows computer. This tool retrieves data lost due to severe virus attack, mishandling, overusage, formation of bad sectors and many other issues that causes SATA hard drive crash. You can also restore data failed SATA hard drive including dead HDD having IDE, SAS, SCSI and other interfaces. Including crashed SATA hard disk, this program also supports retrieval of data from external hard drives, USB drives, SSD drives, flash cards, iPods, FireWire drives and other storage media. This software is compatible to use on Windows desktop / laptop running with Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 operating system.

Steps to rescue data from crashed SATA hard drive:

Note: Connect crashed SATA hard drive to healthy Windows system and proceed with below mentioned steps:

  • Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery application and install it to Windows system
  • Open installed software application and start crashed SATA hard drive data recovery process
  • Use “Partition Recovery” option from main screen to extract data from crashed SATA hard disk drive
  • Then, this tool shows all partition or drives present on that Windows PC
  • Choose crashed SATA hard drive partitions from where data is to be restored and click on “Next” button
  • This triggers scanning process and shows all recoverable data from selected SATA hard drive
  • Mark files and folders which you want to bring back using “Data View” or “File Type View” options
  • Finally browse for destination location to save retrieve data on Windows hard drive or other storage devices but do not store on crashed SATA hard drive

Tips to Follow:

  • Maintain genuine anti-virus utility on Windows computer having SATA hard drive
  • Backup essential data of SATA hard drive on some external storage devices
  • Do not install various unknown or invalid third party application on Windows system to avoid various logical conflicts on SATA HDD

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