Hard drive is considered to be a reliable storage media that stores your operating system, applications, documents and other data. To check its consistency and other connected hardware, a test is performed called POST (Power-On-Self-Test) as you turn on the computer system by BIOS.BIOS proceeds to next step of booting only when POST is successful. In case, if hard drive is faulty and is unable to start properly, POST halts the process of booting and you fail to access the stored information. You might interpret such events by few error messages that appear on screen while the process. Hard Drive Recovery is the solution to recover lost data from physically crashed hard drive, especially when there is no valid data backup available.
To illustrate this, consider that you attempt to boot your computer and its fails while the POST is running. In addition, you receive the below error message: Fixed disk general POST error
Cause
By 'fixed disk' the error refers to the hard drive, on which the POST test has failed due to hardware reasons. Among various reasons responsible for hard drive failure, some of them are as below:
- Read/write head failure: This is the most common reason that causes hard drive crash. Usually, the head floats at few micro meter distance from disk surface, but produces clicking sounds if gets crashed. Hard drive fails to access any data while it is damaged.
- Motor failure: If the hard drive motor, that actually spins the hard drive platters fails, it causes platters to stop spinning and thus operate anymore.
- Electronic reasons: If the electronic controller board stops functioning due to electric surges and power spikes, the hard drive fails to get power and fails.
- Part deterioration: Hard drive fails if any of the internal physical component deteriorates.
Solution
Such POST errors should be dealt by following these steps:
- Remove the damaged hard drive from system
- Install a new hard drive
- Restore data from backup or consult Hard Drive Data Recovery technicians to recover data. Hard Drive Recovery service is provided by different companies that are equipped with suitable recovery tools, experienced technicians and most importantly, Clean Rooms.
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