Categories
What is a Bad Sector? How to recover data from a drive that contains bad sectors?
A Hard drive of any make or brand is divided into millions of sectors. These sectors on the drives are nothing but small spaces which stores our data. Bad sectors may arouse due to any physical damage received, e.g. the head of the drive making contact with the hard disk drive Platter causing shocks and vibrations. Once the drive develops some bad sectors, they (bad sectors) cannot be accessed due to damage received on the surface of the disk drive. A bad sector of a hard drive is of no use for storing any piece of data or information on it.
Why bad sectors are a nightmare?
Bad sectors badly affect the important data stored on the drive, can also corrupt Mac OS X files
If the system continuously reads these bad sectors, the risk of system crash increases.png){kind=icon}
Bad sectors may decrease the life of the hard drive and ultimately make it become deadHow to recover data from a drive that contains bad sectors?
If the Mac OS X hard drive or volumes contains some bad sectors then it is advisable to recover data as soon as possible because the percentage of recovering data from good sectors is much higher than those of partially bad sectors. By running Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery software, a Mac user can easily recover data even though the drive contains bad sectors.
The steps to recovery from bad block Mac OS X hard drive are as follows: -
With software's 'Create Image' option, create a replica of the drive or volumes
The image of the Mac drive is created by reading each and every sector of the drive or volume by the software
During imaging of the OS X drive or volume, if the software encounters any bad block then it skips it and delivers the final image of the drive with good sectors only
After the image of the drive or volume is made, load the image from the interface of the software, proceed to recover lost, deleted data using Stellar Phoenix Mac recovery software.Was this article helpful?
All trademarks acknowledged © Copyright 2012,
Stellar Information Systems Ltd. Leaders in Hard Drive Data Recovery Software & Services
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.