Common Symptoms of Failed & Crashed
Hard Drives We Recover From

Physical HDD Failures

Platter Damage

Platter Degradation

Bad Sectors

Head Failures

Head Crashes

Electrical Failures

Firmware Corruption

Motor Failure

PCB Failure

Multiple Drive Failure (RAID)

Physical HDD Failure Symptoms

Clicking HDD

Not Spinning

Black Screen

Blue Screen

Buzzing

Beeping

Whirring

Not Recognized

File Folder W/Question Mark

Won't Boot

Can See Files But Can't Access

Missing Files

Boots in a Loop

Logical HDD Failures

File System Corruption

Operationg System Errors

Viruses

Boots in a Loop

Blue Screen

Windows Update Failure

Boot Sector Damage

User Error

Accidental Deletion

Incorrect Component Replacement

Accidental Reformatted

Incorrect Rebuild (RAID)

Attempted to Expand Partition

Initialize Drive

CHKDSK

Accidentally Changed Drive Order (RAID)