hi everyone welcome back to wondershare recover it's the platform where we help
you resolve unexpected technical errors today's video is going to be all about data recovery
as we'll be discussing different solutions to recover data from bad sectors on a hard drive
now these sectors can appear due to several different reasons so in this episode we'll
take a look at what some of these factors are and explain how to fix these sectors on a hard drive
and then how to use our data recovery solution to get back the data that
you've lost from these bad sectors but before we dive any further make
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to put it simply the storage on a hard drive is split up into lots of tiny pieces which
are called sectors now these sectors can sometimes become defective and these are
referred to as a bad sector a bad sector can also be referred as a boot sector which can't
process any read or write requests it means the user won't be able to add any new data or retrieve
existing data from a hard drive now of course the real question is what causes bad sectors to appear
as i mentioned earlier in the video bad sectors on a hard drive can occur due to a
wide variety of reasons which means there isn't a specific root cause to the problem so here are
a few factors that might have caused the bad sectors on your hard drive your drive might be
defective i mean you might have shipped with bad sectors from the manufacturer in the first place
long-term continuous usage of a hard drive can cause sectors to essentially wear out external
factors like the presence of malware or viruses can also cause defects in sectors and finally
physical damage is another common reason why your drive might start acquiring bad sectors
now before we dive head first into trying to recover data from bad sectors let's first
see if we can fix the problem instead now while there are different ways to repair bad sectors on
a hard drive the easiest one to use is using the built-in check disk utility on your windows system
check disk is a disk utility that automatically diagnoses and corrects
logical errors on your hard drive open the cortana search box on your windows system
and type in command prompt then right click on the search result and tap run as administrator once
you're in the command window simply type in the check disk command in the following format chkd
followed by the letter of the hard drive that you're wishing to check
colon forward slash f forward slash r forward slash x and then press enter
the checklist utility will now start scanning the drive to evaluate all potential logical errors
once the process completes the bad sectors on your drive will be repaired automatically
and you should be able to retrieve your data without any interruption
at this point though it is worth bearing in mind that the check this command won't work
all of the time especially when you're dealing with a drive that has multiple bad sectors in this
case it's really better to just replace the drive but you may need to recover data from those bad
sectors first to do this you can use wondershare recover it a professional data recovery solution
that scans and retrieves data from different storage devices including hard drives
recovery supports a wide variety of file formats which means you'll be able to recover all types
of data from pictures and videos to pdfs and word documents one key feature of using recovery
though is its ease of use the tool offers a simple three-step data recovery process so even if you're
not a particularly tech savvy person you'll find it easier to get your data back using recover it
start by installing and launching recovery on your computer on the home screen select the hard drive
where your data is stored and recover it will begin scanning it now the time for this process
to complete will vary depending on how much data is on the drive after the scan completes recovery
will display a list of all the files it's found on your screen go through these results and select
the files that you want to get back then simply tap the recover button at the bottom right corner
to retrieve the selected files on your system so guys that's a wrap on today's episode we've talked
about what bad sectors are how you can repair them and how you can recover data from them we
hope this video has helped you get your files back from such a hard drive and that you don't
have to deal with any data loss still if you have any queries make sure to drop a comment down below
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