How Can I Retrieve Data from Hitachi Hard Drive?

Hitachi is well known manufacturer for producing series of best quality, compact and reliable hard disks as well as external hard drives. It utilizes magnetic recording for storing files and is available in different data storage capacities. Even though Hitachi hard drives offer better performance, they are vulnerable to data loss, which can happen due to simple file deletion, formatting partitions, crash of OS, file system corruption and so on.

Being a computer user you might have stored large amount of personal or work related data on your Hitachi hard disk and losing such data can put you under terrible pressure. But do you think that you lost them forever? No they are not permanently erased; they are still present on Hitachi hard drive until they are replaced by new file content. So you can get them back with the help of reliable hard drive recovery software.

There are many reasons for loss of data from Hitachi hard disk drive as explained below:

• Formatting Partitions: Partitions on Hitachi hard drive can get accidentally formatted instead of other partition during re-installing OS or dual OS installation. However, in some cases it is necessary to format partitions on Hitachi HDD to get rid of corruption, file system errors or virus infections
• Error Messages: Sometimes you may get error messages such as "Boot Disk Error, Insert Disk and Press any Key to Continue", "Missing Operating System", "Primary or Secondary hard disk failure", etc. These errors indicate that there are some severe issues with Hitachi HD and you cannot access files
• Corruption of Hitachi HD: Hitachi hard drive can get damaged as result of incorrect re-partitioning or resizing of existing partitions, reformatting, corruption of partition table or MBR, important system files, etc
• Other Causes: Data from Hitachi hard disk might be lost due to improper sudden shut down or power failures while accessing data. Application malfunction, too many bad sectors, hardware faults, etc are other causes for loss of files and folders from Hitachi hard disk

How to overcome this data loss issue?

It is highly suggested to shut down your computer soon after you learn about data loss or Hitachi hard drive failure due to any of these situations. It prevents you from additional failures and permanent loss of data. Next you have to look for suitable data recovery tool to protect and rescue your valuable files from Hitachi hard disk.

Hitachi hard drive file recovery tool

Here is simple, yet powerful tool named as Yodot Hard Drive Recovery that can bring back your lost data from Hitachi desktop hard drive after facing any sort of loss scenario. It also supports recovery of data from various internal and external hard drives produced by Hitachi, Toshiba, Western Digital, Seagate, SanDisk, Maxtor, Iomega, etc. You can even make use of this tool to retrieve data from RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5 partitions. It supports recovery of data from any type of storage media such as cameras, music sticks, flash drives, USB drives, etc on Windows system.

Procedure to recover Hitachi hard drive data:

• Download and install software to the computer from which recovery can be done
• If the hard drive is crashed then connect it to the computer that works fine
• In case, if you want to recover files from external Hitachi drive then connect it to computer in which you have downloaded software
• Now, execute the application and begin the recovery process
• Once you run the software, you can see two options they are “Partition Recovery” and “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery”
• Select any one according to the situation you have faced
• The application now display all the drives present in your system
• Select the hard drive from which recovery can be done
• On the next screen you can see the logical partitions present on hard drive that has been selected. Click on the partition you want to recover
• The application now asks you to select the type of files that you want to retrieve
• Select the files you want to recover otherwise click on “Skip” to select all file types
• The software starts scanning now and once the scanning process finishes, it displays all the recoverable files
• Choose the files you want to retrieve and click on “Next”. Preview media files before saving
• Finally save the recovered files into a preferred location on your computer