Hard drives like this fail all of the time.

Hard drives like this fail all of the time.

Many concerns fall on just how you can tell if your hard drive is failing, or not. The fear of having to consider hard drive recovery does not always have to be in the back of your mind. Often times that is not even the issue, it is actually user error.

One of the most common is when a computer is no longer seeing the hard drive. Even if there is another physical drive on the computer, it may not show up. That does not mean that your hard drive is failing. My first instructions are to go to the disk management area on their system through the path of computer management. By doing this it will show all of the storage devices on the system.

If you see the drive then all you need to do is uninstall and reinstall it. Now, if you do not see the drive, then there are a few more techniques to check before consulting a HDD recovery expert. And mind you that when I say expert, I mean a certified and reputable individual …