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Hard Drive Crash Recovery

Hearing a buzzing or clicking noise emanating from your PC? Screen reads: "Operating System Not Found?", or "Drive Not Found"? Have you encountered the evil "blue screen of death"? You could be experiencing a physical hard drive crash. Or, you could have simply just encountered some operating system issues, which are quite common.

Starting out, take a look at the issue your computer is facing. First of all, are their physical issues with your PC? Aside from very obvious physical issues, such as a system affected by disaster such as fire or flood, there are some things you should check.

Hard Disk Danger Sounds
If your hard disk drive is emitting odd sounds such as clicking, scraping or grinding sounds, your best bet is to immediately turn your PC off. In most cases where actual noises are heard, this is critical, as your hard drive is likely damaging itself! Noises are typically symptomatic of protective hard drive head failure.

This can destroy the data on your hard drive, mainly because of the high rate of spin for most hard drives, which can range from 4,200 RPM for a newer laptop drive to 15,000 RPM+ for high end SCSI drives. When noises are being heard, the head can damage the actual hard disk platters very quickly. If you are in fact experiencing a situation like this and you live in the Traverse city area contact us right away. It may be likely that your hard disk drive is damaged already. Time is critical if you have data that is not backed up.

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