Recovery of Data after Primary Hard Drive Failure

“Yesterday while booting my system I receive a blue screen with series of error message stating that primary hard drive failure and other warnings. After some sort of settings, I recovered from this blue screen of death errors. However, complete data stored on my system got eased while fixing this issue. Please anyone suggested me a method to restore data after primary hard drive failure.”

If you find “primary hard rive failure” error, then it is usually failure of C: drive in system. Generally C: drive is consider as primary drive, which can hold various program files, documents, media files and many more. If primary drive gets fail due to any reasons, then it leads to huge data loss as discussed in above scenario.

Some of the reasons for failure of primary hard drive are:

  • Frequent Power Failure: Regular electronic breakage while working in primary hard drive may contributes to its failure
  • Internal Errors: Internal or logical errors may leads to formation of bad sectors and results in failure of primary hard drive
  • Virus Attack: Harmful viruses will corrupt each and every file on system hard drive and make operating system boot slowly thereby resulting in primary hard drive failure
  • Human Faults: Human mistakes like improperly altering the system registry settings modifying the file system attributes and others can make primary hard drive failure

Don’t worry! In case you have run into the above stated scenarios and lost your essential data from primary hard drive. You can get back missing data from failed primary hard drive with the help accurate data retrieval software available on internet.

Primary hard drive failure recovery software:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is one the most suitable data recovery software to recover erased or lost data after primary hard drive failure on Windows system. The application rescues data lost because of any of the above discusses scenarios from primary hard drive that has IDE, SATA, SAS, SCSI and other interfaces. Including primary hard disk, the utility also supports restoration of data from external hard drives, pen drives, SSD drives, memory cards, iPods, FireWire drives other storage components. The application is compatible to run on various Windows operating system such as Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003.

Steps to restore data after primary hard drive failure:

Note:Connect failed primary hard drive to healthy Windows system and proceed with the following steps:

  • Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool and install it to Windows computer
  • Open the application and start the data recovery process
  • Use “Partition Recovery” option or use “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery” option to restore data from failed primary hard disk drive
  • The application scans and shows all the logical drives present on Windows computer
  • Choose the failed primary drive / partition from where data is to be retrieved and click on “Next”
  • The tool scans and shows all the rescuable data from the selected drive
  • Mark the files or folders which you want to get back
  • Finally save the recovered data to your desired location on system or other storage devices like external hard disk, pen drive and even CDs and DVDs. However, do not store on the failed primary HDD to avoid data overwriting

Guidelines to Follow:

  • Maintain genuine anti-virus software on Windows computer
  • Backup essential data of your system primary HD on some other removable storage devices
  • Do not store any new files on primary hard drive after data loss

Other Popular Software

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