Hard drive crash
A hard drive crash is understood as the sudden unavailability of data on a hard drive , the cause of which lies in the hardware of the hard drive. This name originally comes from the head crash , where the hard disk head touches the surface of the storage medium . In contrast to a head crash, however, a hard disk crash can also go through
- Defects in electronics ,
- the motor does not start ,
- the immobility of the hard disk head
and the like are caused.
After a hard drive crash, the data does not necessarily have to be lost, professional data recovery companies can often recover a large part of the data using certain software tools and data recovery methods.
Demarcation
Sometimes, from the user's point of view, file system errors are also referred to as hard disk crashes, but in this case the cause is not in the hard disk itself, but in the logical structure of the data stored on it.