Laptop Hard drive Bad Head: How Do I Get My Data?

Laptops have storage devices. The laptop hard drive is the major storage media of the laptop and any other computer. Hard drive is one of the most important internal laptop components as it stores data that is used by the system and computer users.

The hard drive has several sensitive internal components in it such as magnetic disk commonly as platters, an actuator arm, the read/ write head and other components. The actuator arm holds the read write head and helps it move to and from the center of the magnetic disks (platters). The read/write head is designed to function in a way that it hovers very close to but not touching the surface of the platter. If you drop your laptop and the actuator arm happens to break, this means that the read/write head will have to touch the surface of the magnetic disc definitely the surface is destroyed and it cannot be read from again. The hard disk will be destroyed hence hard disk crash!

Some times due to the overheating of some laptops after being used for quite along time, the platters are forced to expand and in the process of spinning, they happen to touch the read/write head that is so close to them. Note that this head is so sensitive and such a slight touch may destroy it. This explains why some times you may hear some funny noise from your laptop. It’s as a result of a destroyed head touching the platters and in the process, some funny noise is produced from your laptop. All these are signs that all is not well with your laptop either it has crushed or it will very soon display the blue screen of death before you.

How do I retrieve my data from such hard disk? This is the question that many people ask themselves. It’s very simple. Data recover experts are here with us. If you had important data in your drive and present it to the specialist in recovery, what he will simply do is to replace the spoilt head with a similar one and read from the disk. Note that this is not as easy as explained and you should never at any instance try this yourself lest you lose your data forever!

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