Over time, your Windows hard drive may develop some errors due to a number of reasons. The most frequent causes of hard drive problems are as follows:
?Improper system shutdown
?Hard drive fatigue
?Virus attack
?Power failure
?File system corruption
In such cases, our data becomes inaccessible and we need to repair our hard drive to access of our precious data. To get rid of logical issues we need take certain steps:
1.We should have the Windows operating system disk to try recovery using the Recovery Console. To do that we need to boot the system using the Windows CD and then enter the recovery console
2.Also, we need to remember the Administrator password as Recovery Console will ask us to select an installation (multiboot systems only) first and then enter the administrator password, if you have an OEM system please press Enter key only once as there is generally no password. We can confirm that using the Safe Boot too, if we have been there before.
3.Type ‘chkdsk /p’ command in the Recovery Console where /p is the parameter which executes an in depth check even if the drive is not marked for chkdsk to run. The /p parameter won’t make any changes to our hard drive.
4.The system will start checking for errors on hard drive. If you get any error message, then CHKDSK will repair those errors. If no errors are found, it won’t be able to repair the hard drive.
5.If it finds the error, type ‘chkdsk /r’ command in command prompt and press the Enter key. The /r parameter locates bad sectors and recovers the readable information.
6.Once you press enter, CHKDSK will start checking each sector of your hard drive for errors and will automatically repair them.
7.When the process (Read more ...)
