Downloading certain things could crash your computer, or swiping a magnet across the monitor could cause trouble, too.
Yes, a virus is capable of crashing your hard drive.
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hard drive head crash
To get more information on hard drive recovery for a hard drive crash, you might want to look into www.salvagedata.com as they specialize in hard drive recovery for iso systems.
You cant really fix a "hard drive crash". In the data recovery business that term is used to describe a particular problem when the mechanism inside the hard drive "crashes" or scratches the surface of the platters/disks where the data is stored. There are other types of problems that can be corrected when a hard drive fails but this is not one of them. http://www.interdatarecovery.com/index.php/5-steps-to-recovery
From the website beyourownit, you can learn how to repair your own hard drive. After a hard drive crash or blue screen, you may begin by using a windows utility called Chkdsk which will look for errors and problems in your drive.
You have to attach it properly. Chucking it at the hard drive doesn't work.
you have to buy a program which is specialist to do that or hack it nicely.
Dataphoenix offer fixed price recovery of hard drive data. Data doctor is one of the leading hard drive recovery specialists and is based in London UK.
Depends on what "Something" is
Yes. In fact, due to the nature of mving them around, they are far more likely to crash than an internal stationary drive.
The internal Hard Drive in a computer has an average life span of 10 years. If a computer is nearing this age it is a good idea to have an external hard drive to back up your files in case of a crash.