Hard Disk Drive Error, Hard Drive Failure Hard Drive Data Recovery Solutions

When you experience a Non-System HDD - Disk Error because of a bad or damaged disk drive, it is often because the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) cannot find the hard disk's boot sectors and master boot record on your drive.

If you experience this kind of disk error failure, you should be very careful about how you react because you could permanently lose important data. After determining that the problem is the result of a disk drive, immediately contact a SalvageData data-recovery specialist. You should never try to fix the problem yourself by using off-the-shelf products, utilities, or by opening the drive outside the protection of a class 100 clean room environment. By doing so, you can damage the drive, which could result in you permanently destroying the data on the drive.

One reason you receive such an hdd or disk drive error message is that the BIOS cannot find the drive, or one of the drives was not specified in the CMOS setup. Make sure that all the floppy boot drives have been removed from your system because this could be the cause for the error message.

Because 95 percent of computer users operate in the realm of PC architecture, there is a similarity of error messages. Aside from a variation of a few words, the messages mean the same thing. Therefore, it is a good assumption that your problem is related to a disk drive failure.

Below you'll find some examples of commonly used disk drive / hdd / hard drive error messages. They all are warnings of a failing or failed hard drive. When you experience any of them, there's a very good chance you need our services! Call a SalvageData professional for a free consultation.

I/O	Error	I/O	Error
1700	Disk Read Error	1731	Controller error
1701	Fixed disk general POST hdd error	1732	Controller error
1702	Drive/controller time-out error	1733	BIOS undefined error return
1703	Drive seek error	1735	Bad command error
1704	Controller failed	1736	Data corrected error
1705	Drive sector not found error	1737	Bad track error
1706	Write fault error	1738	Bad sector error
1707	Drive track O error	1739	Bad initialization error
1708	Head select error	1740	Bad sense error
1709	Error Correction Code (ECC) error	1750	Drive verify failure
1710	Sector buffer overrun	1751	Drive read failure
1711	Bad address mark	1752	Drive write failure
1712	Internal controller diagnostics failure	1753	Drive random read test failure
1713	Data compare error	1754	Drive seek test failure
1714	Drive not ready	1755	Controller failure
1715	Track O indicator failure	1756	Controller Error Correction Code (ECC) test failure
1716	Diagnostics cylinder errors	1757	Controller head select failure
1717	Surface read errors	1780	Seek failure; drive 0
1718	Hard drive type error	1781	Seek failure; drive 1
1720	Bad diagnostics cylinder	1782	Controller test failure
1726	Data compare error	1790	Diagnostic cylinder read error; drive 0
1730	Controller error	1791	Diagnostic cylinder read error; drive 1

Most of the above listed disk read errors indicate that you need professional data-recovery help. Immediately stop what you're doing and contact SalvageData.

Here's some background information explaining what causes such errors:

When your system is turned on, your computer BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST). It does this to verify that everything is working properly on your PC. When the BIOS boots your system to the point that it gains access to its video subsystem, it displays the information about the PC during the booting process. It uses the video system to communicate error messages like those above.

Different parts of your system can launch an error message, depending upon how far the booting process has progressed. Most hdd drive error messages originate from the system BIOS because it is responsible for most of the functions for booting up. Still, other physical system and drive errors can be relayed to the OS. Those error messages are usually related to your OS.

 

WARNING / PLEASE NOTE:
You should never open the cover of a failed hard disk drive in attempt to salvage or recover data. Today’s hard disk drives tolerances are very tight and the materials used inside are so technologically advanced that even the smallest speck of dust, contaminants or even gaseous vapor can disrupt the delicate balance of the drives ecosystem. Any such disruption not only destroys the drive but all the data contained on it.

Data is written on the drives by one or more read/write heads that are designed to manipulate magnetic particles on the disk surface. This read/write activity happens with the read/write heads literally flying one -two-thousands the width of human hair above the platters at speeds of anywhere from 4,000 to 15,000 RPM. Our data salvaging and recovery process is conducted in a world-class 100 cleanroom environment by a world-class group of mechanical and electrical hard drive engineers using carefully researched tools and materials to safely recover and ensure the greatest possibility of success.