When Your Laptop Drive Is Damaged Avoid These 7 Mistakes At All Costs!

By Alan Mod

Below listing of the 7 fatal errors not to do when your hard disk is damaged.

1- In case of fire damage do not attempt to clean, or to place in refrigerator or freezer a fire damaged media.

2- In case of physical damage do not try to remove hard drive, do not shake, disassemble any hard disc or laptop that has been damaged , because improper handling can make recovery more difficult or impossible.

3- After physical damage immediately turn off computer, never attempt to operate any visibly damaged devices because further operation may damage data irremediably.

4- Water damage case : Never not attempt to clean or dry water-damaged disc drive by opening it or exposing it to heat(the heat of a hairdryer for example).

5- When a user see messages such as "Operating System not found", "Corrupt Volume" or when he may simply be missing files and folders he should immediately shut down the computer.(Because the longer a damaged hard disc is left running, the more data that can be totally lost).

6- In case of mechanical damage if you hear strange noises or grinding, do not run a check disc software(CHKDSK or VRepair).

7- And finally if you are a newbie, never attempt to try the recovery alone if you have any valuable data.

In this 7 kind of case you will have to contact specialised company, and that can/will cost you probably a lot of money.

In fact the greatest error to avoid is the absence of backup, I will never say it enough, backup, backup, backup...

Or get ready to face a disaster.

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