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Head crash is a major problem with modern hard drives that could occur at any point of time. It results as the inaccessibility of your most critical data stored on disk platters. A damaged head can not read/write data from or to disk platters. It causes serious data loss situations and lead to Hard Drive Recovery.

The head crash is a type of hard drive failure that occurs when read/write head of your hard drive touches the disk platters. The platters are the components with magnetic surface where the data gets stored. Head crash results into damage to disk platters and cause serious data loss situations.

The read/write head generally rides upon a thin layer of moving air ensnared on the platter surface (some hard drive used thin liquid film instead). The uppermost layer of disk platter is made of Teflon-like material, which works like lubricant. Beneath this is a film of sputtered carbon. Both these layers are helpful in protecting magnetic layer from most head crash situations.

The head crash might be initiated by just a single minute dust particle or other accumulations that could cause the read/write head to rebound against the hard drive platters, destroying thin magnetic coating of the disk surface.

The hard drive read/write head is made with the help of thin layer technology, which includes materials that are hard enough for scratching protective layer. The head crash might also take place when the hard drive or hard drive equipped device gets dropped accidentally.

Since most of the modern hard drives spin at speeds between 5,400 RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) and 15,000 RPM, the possibilities and extent of damage to the disk platters become really high. Due to high speed, the read/write head over the platter surface overheats and makes the hard drive or some of its parts unusable until it cools down.

Although, head crash causes serious data loss situations but you should not panic in such cases as Data Recovery is possible to get your precious data back. To overcome such data loss situations, you can take help from experienced recovery professionals that provide drive recovery service.

The Hard Drive Recovery service is personalized help offered by recovery specialists to repair or replace the damaged read/write head and other affected components of your hard drive. They work through safe and controlled environments of Clean Rooms (special lab environments) implementing advanced and suitable result oriented techniques. Such techniques are finalized after analyzing the cause of crash.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the most trustworthy and leading Data Recovery company. It delivers sophisticated recovery service in State Of The Art Class 100 Clean Rooms. The service is available for various models and types of hard drives as SCSI, SATA, EIDE and IDE plus modern SSDs (Solid State Drives), generally SATA.

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