SATA Hard Drive Failure Error and Recovery

Hard disk drive is the primary storage media that comes available with different interfaces. One of the primarily used interface is SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) that is known for its quick data transfer rate because of serial signaling technology it uses. But at times, you find SATA hard drives being undetectable by the system. Such behavior usually results when SATA hard drives get physically failed. However, you should check the system for cabling like issues also. You should replace a failed SATA hard drive immediately after powering down the system. If no clean data backup is available, you will need to consult hard drive recovery services in such cases.

For an instance, when you power up a SATA hard disk installed computer system, you might receive the below error message:

“SATA Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Failure – Strike F1 to continue F2 to run the setup utility”

Where, the drive ’0′ represents the drive letter.

Cause

The prime causes that could result into above error are listed below:

• Bad or disconnected SATA hard drive cables

• Improper BIOS settings

• Bad motherboard

• Physical hard drive failure

Solution

To troubleshoot the above behavior, you need to employ these steps:

• Make sure that all the cables connected to the hard drive are properly configured and healthy

• Ensure correct BIOS settings

• Replace the motherboard, if damaged

• Replace the damaged SATA hard drive

Hard Drive Recovery

A SATA hard drive might get failed if made to work under stressed conditions. However, the factors like natural conditions, overheating, water etc. can also cause the similar behavior to occur. This might cause errors like read/write head failure, actuator crash, spindle motor damage and others. To recover lost data in any of such conditions, you should consult technical assistance from hard Drive Data recovery experts.

Hard Drive Recovery deals in recovering lost data from physically failed hard drives. The recovery experts first scrutinize the failed hard drive, repair or replace the damaged hard disk components and finally restore the data using high-tech recovery techniques. Since hard disk internals are prone to damage due to dust-like particles, all these recovery procedures are carried out in Clean Rooms.

Stellar Information Systems Limited offers market’s leading hard drive data recovery service through Class 100 Clean Rooms. Stellar’s experts carefully analyze the media for the cause of failure and apply tools and techniques suitably. Stellar has a wide source of solutions to retrieve lost data from SATA, IDE, EIDE, SCSI and PATA hard drives.

About the Author

Garry Thomson a student of Mass Communication doing research on hard drive recovery software . He is also a freelancer for http://www.windows-data-recovery.net

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