Full Solutions to Do Hard Drive Recovery via MiniTool

Hard Drive Profile

A hard drive, also known as hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, or fixed disk, is a type of digital data storage device using magnetic storage to save and retrieve digital files.

Data on a hard drive is accessed in a random-access manner meaning individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order.

SSD, short for Solid-State Drive, has the same functions and dimensions as a hard disk drive. However, it attracts more users due to its excellent higher data-transfer rate, lower power consumption, reliability, access times, etc.

3.5-inch and 2.5-inch are the two most common forms of hard drive with the former usually used for desktop computers while the latter used for laptops.

You need to connect hard drives to the Windows operating system by using standard interface cable like SATA (Serial ATA), PATA (Parallel ATA), USB or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).

Top Reasons for Data Loss on Hard Drive

Here are some of the most common reasons for data being lost on a hard drive:

	Human Error Human error is the most common reason. For example, a file can be deleted by mistake, or data loss can occur during the formatting or deleting of partitions on a hard drive.
	File System Error When a hard drive has a system error, the partition might become unusable. This could be caused by a partition becoming RAW or inaccessible.
	Hardware Malfunction The hard drive may malfunction and lead to data loss. These malfunctions could be hard drive failure, bad sectors, bad RAM, or more.
	System Error Some errors that occur to the Windows operating system may cause problems while the computer is being booted. If the computer cannot be booted successfully, it will be difficult to rescue data on the hard drive.
	Virus Attack Virus and malware are dangerous threats to the computer hard drive. They can ruthlessly attack your computer while deleting and stealing data on the hard drive.
	Other Reasons Common situations like power outages, natural disasters, water damages to the hard drive can also destroy the data.

3 Methods to Do Hard Drive Recovery Easily

In the case of unfortunate and accidental data loss, here are 3 possible ways of hard disk recovery to recover deleted files from HDD.

Best Free Hard Drive Recovery Software

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a piece of free file recovery software. It has 4 recovery modules: This PC, Removable Disk Drive, Hard Disk Drive, and CD/DVD Drive.

Removable Disk Drive is used to recover files from digital media storages devices, and CD/DVD Drive recovers files from damaged, or scratched CDs and DVDs.

For HDD data recovery, you should use either of these two modules:

• This PC module can retrieve data from logically damaged partitions, formatted partitions, and RAW partitions.
• Hard Disk Drive module is designed to recover data from a lost partition due to reasons like hard drive failure, OS corruption, and so on.

The rest two modules of MiniTool Power Data Recovery are Removable Disk Drive and CD/DVD Drive. To recover data from cards like memory cards, SD cards, etc, you need to use Removable Disk Drive. To retrieve files from CD/DVD, you can use CD/DVD Drive.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery can help you retrieve any lost or deleted files – photos, music, movies, documents, etc – for both internal and external hard drives.

Download and install the Free MiniTool Power Data Recovery Trial Edition NOW on your computer to try recovering your lost files from the hard drive.

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3 Steps to Recover Files from HDD

Step 1: Start the recovery module

Run MiniTool Power Data Recovery and select the appropriate recovery module from the left panel.

In this example, we will take This PC module as an example to make HDD recovery.

Step 2: Start the scanning for recovery process

Select the hard drive you want to recover from on the right.

Step 3: Save your recovered files

Take a look over the recovered files, and select a location to save them.

Yes, it is quite simple to recover files from hard drives with these three steps.

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Use MiniTool to Solve Different Hard Drive Recovery Issues

The situations MiniTool Power Data Recovery can solve include but are not limited to the followings:

To use this software to recover deleted files from SSD or HDD without limitation, obtain an advanced edition of this disk recovery software from the MiniTool official store. If you want to make hard drive recovery Mac, please choose the Mac version.

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Create a Backup File to Prevent Data Loss

To avoid the significant consequences of hard drive data loss, it is important to back up your files to other places. Generally, there are two useful methods to do this:

Method 1: Cloud Backup

Cloud backup is widely used among computer users. There are many cloud backup methods you can choose from, such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and more.

Method 2: Use a Third-party Software to Make a Backup

Different from a cloud backup, a piece of data backup software can back up the entire system and all its contents, including the hidden and system files. Here, you can try MiniTool ShadowMaker to back up hard drive data easily.

Summary

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a free, useful tool for hard drive recovery. Should you have any questions during your use of this software, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected] or leave a message in the comments.

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