If your drivers are outdated or corrupted, your computer may not read the hard drive correctly (or at all). Updating them or reinstalling them may be enough to fix a broken hard drive.Oct 6, 2021
How do I recover a corrupted hard drive?
- Download and Install Disk Drill for Windows or Mac OS X.
- Launch Disk Drill recovery software, select the crashed hard disk and click:
- Preview the files you found with Quick or Deep Scan.
- Click Recover button to recover your lost data.
What happens when a hard drive is corrupted?
In many cases, a corrupted hard drive can occur as a storage device ages. The reason for these failures is that during operation, or even when the hard drive is not in use, the data can experience degradation. Files then become corrupted and are no longer usable. Data corruption can occur from a sudden loss of power.
Can you fix hard drive corruption?
When a hard drive's file system gets corrupt and you can't access the hard disk, you can run a CHKDSK scan to repair the corrupt hard drive without formatting it. The CHKDSK command checks the file system and the file system metadata of a volume for logical and physical errors.