Hard Drive Repair Software: How to Repair HDD and Fix Data Loss Issue

Summary

Is your hard drive dying? Do not despair. There are many wonderful ways to diagnose and fix hard drive issues. Follow the details to repair hard disk manually or with HDD repair software. Also, download EaseUS hard disk recovery software to recover data from the corrupted or damaged hard drive.

When the hard drive gets corrupted or damaged, don't panic. This guide would do you a great favor. To handle it, you must check if it is the logical error that prevents you from accessing the hard drive. If so, you can check and repair the hard disk errors. Then you can recover your lost data from hard disk with hard drive data recovery software. If it is a physical hard drive problem, you'll need to send your hard drive to the data recovery or repair service center. 

Part 1: How to Repair Hard Disk Drive Errors

Before you try to repair your HDD, you must know what causes hard drive corruption. Here is the list of top 7 reasons for hard disk failure:

• Virus attack
• Bad sectors
• Software failures, manufacturer's faults and fault in CPU fans
• Human errors
• Power supply problem

Now that you know what causes hard drive failure, you can repair the hard drive to solve your problem. Before you start, you must manually check your power supply and the heat of your fan. Make sure that they are working properly.

Option 1: Run Antivirus

Connect the hard drive to another Windows PC and use a reliable antivirus to scan the drive. Sometimes, viruses and malware can cause such errors. Therefore, an antivirus scan may repair the corrupted hard drive and make the drive accessible.

Option 2: Check and Repair Hard Disk Error in Windows 10/8/7 

Try Windows built-in tool to check and repair hard disk error first. If it works, you can easily access your data. Here's how to do it in Windows 10, 8 or 7:

Step 1: Open "This PC/Computer", right-click the hard disk or partition which you want to check and click "Properties".

Step 2: Select "Tools" and click "Check now" under Error-checking.

Step 3: Check Disk Options dialog will show up and select any one of the following options to check and repair hard disk.

Step 4: Select and check both "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of back sectors", then click "Start".

• To run this tool in read-only mode, click "Start".
• To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select "Automatically fix file system errors" checkbox, click "Start".
• To repair errors, locate bad sectors and recover readable information, click "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors", click "Start".

After the whole repair process, your hard disk or hard drive partition shall be able to work normally. You can then try to access saved data on the hard drive.

Option 3: Run SFC Scan

The SFC Scannow option is one of the several specific switches available in the SFC command. It helps fix the damaged or missing Windows system files that may cause drive corruption.

Step 1: Open the command prompt window. 

Step 2: Type the following command in the command prompt window and press "Enter" on the keyboard.

If the drive is a portable drive, type the command below and replace letter c: with your hard drive letter.

Wait for the scan to finish and then restart the system. You can try again to see if you can access your hard drive.

Option 4: Consult a Specialist for Professional

If you can afford professional help or simply cannot wait for a miracle, consult a specialist. Go to a reputable company. They should work with professional technicians and tools. They can open your hard drive in cleanrooms or under dust-free conditions, 

Part 2: Restore Lost Hard Drive Data

Diagnosing and fixing a broken hard drive is complex. It’s quite possible that the above steps fail to repair the corrupt hard drive. And sometimes data loss happens. The data recovery software such as EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can quickly restore files from corrupted, recover formatted hard drive data or restore data from deleted partitions. It would be a nice choice to use recovery software if the false operation has caused data loss on your HDD. Download this hard drive recovery software and follow below guides to restore lost hard disk data:

Step 1: Selecting the location

• Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and select the drive where you lose your data.
• Select the very hard drive when you open the file recovery software.

Step 2: Scanning the drive

• Click the "Scan" button. The length of the scanning time highly depends on drive capacity.
• Wait patiently during this process.

Step 3: Recovering wanted files

• After the scan, just choose what you need and click "Recover" button to recover lost data.
• The "Filter", "Search" and "Extra Files" options are helpful for you to find the desired data from a hard drive.

Here is one more thing that you must do before rescuing repaired hard disk drive:

Format hard disk drive > Reset file system (NTFS/FAT32 etc.) and rename it > Click "OK" to finish formatting.

Right now, your hard disk drive has been fully repaired and can be reused for storing and saving fancy data again.

Tips to Prevent The HDD from Data Loss Trouble

How to avoid hard disk drive data loss trouble on your PC in Windows 10/8/7? Here below, we have some tips for you to protect and prevent hard disk data loss trouble:

• Back up important data on HDD regularly. (External storage devices are recommended.)
• Run CHKDSK command to check and repair hard disk errors frequently.
• Clean up a virus with anti-virus software in time.
• Apply EaseUS hard disk repair software to recover HDD lost data timely once data loss trouble happens.