Manage your drive with this package that includes Samsung AutoBackup (for real-time backup), Samsung SecretZone (for data protection), Samsung Secure Manager (for data encryption and backup), and Samsung External Hard Drive (for management tools). SeaTools - Alat diagnostik cepat yang memeriksa kesehatan hard disk Anda.

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When the hard drive gets corrupted due to a file system error or the hard drive turns into RAW, don't panic. This guide would do you a great favor by providing detailed steps to repair a corrupt hard disk without losing data. To handle it, you must check if it is the logical error that prevents you from accessing the hard drive. If so, you can check and perform hard disk repair. If it is a physical hard drive problem, you'll need to send your hard drive to the data recovery or repair service center.

Related reading:Top 9 best data recovery software to recover data from HDD/SSD

Possible Causes of Hard Drive Disk Errors

Before you try to repair the hard disk, you should know what causes hard drive corruption. Here is the list of top reasons for hard disk failure.

• Virus attack
• Bad sectors
• Sudden system shutdown or crash
• Human errors
• Power supply and overheating problem

Now that you know what causes hard drive failure, you can repair the hard drive to solve your problem.

How to Make Hard Disk Repair With Free HDD Repair Software

Before you start, you should manually check your power supply and the heat of your fan. Make sure that they are working properly. And then, take the following solutions for HDD repair.

1. Run Antivirus

Connect the hard drive to another Windows PC and use a reliable antivirus to scan the drive. Sometimes, viruses and malware can cause such errors. Therefore, an antivirus scan may repair the corrupted hard drive and make the drive accessible.

2. Check and Repair Hard Disk Error in Windows 10/8/7

Try Windows built-in tool to check and repair hard disk error first. If it works, you can easily access your data. Here's how to do it in Windows 10, 8, or 7:

Step 1. Open 'This PC/Computer', right-click the hard disk or partition which you want to check and click 'Properties'.

Step 2. Select 'Tools' and click 'Check now' under Error-checking.

Step 3. Check Disk Options dialog will show up and select any one of the following options to check and repair hard disk.

Step 4. Select and check both 'Automatically fix file system errors' and 'Scan for and attempt recovery of back sectors', then click 'Start'.

• To run this tool in read-only mode, click 'Start'.
• To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the 'Automatically fix file system errors' checkbox, click 'Start'.
• To repair errors, locate bad sectors and recover readable information, click 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors', click 'Start'.

After the whole repair process, your hard disk or hard drive partition shall be able to work normally. You can then try to access saved data on the hard drive.

3. Run SFC Scan

The SFC Scannow option is one of the several specific switches available in the SFC command. It helps fix the damaged or missing Windows system files that may cause drive corruption.

Step 1. Open the command prompt window.

Step 2. Type sfc /scannow in the command prompt window and press 'Enter' on the keyboard.

If the drive is a portable drive, type SFC /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=c: /OFFWINDIR=c:windows and replace letter c: with your hard drive letter.

Wait for the scan to finish and then restart the system. You can try again to see if you can access your hard drive.

Data Recovery is not a challenge anymore. EaseUS serves as a dependable data recovery application to restore lost data within simple clicks.

4. Check File System With Free Hard Disk Repair Software

To check and repair file system error that causes hard disk drive corruption, you can use the free hard disk repair software - EaseUS Partition Master. It enables you to check bad sectors and prevent data corruption by fixing the file system errors with the Check File System feature.

In addition to the HDD repair, this partition manager software also provides variable useful partition organizing functions, such as resize/move partition, clone, merge, create, format, and delete partition, convert MBR to GPT, convert a logical partition to primary or primary partition to logical, and FAT to NTFS partition.

5. Use a Data Recovery Tool and Format Hard Disk

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If the above methods fail to repair the corrupt hard drive and it's still in RAW, then the corruption is severe, and you need to format the hard drive. In this case, you should use powerful data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard quickly restore files from corrupted hard disk, recover formatted hard drive data or restore data from deleted partitions before you format the hard disk. Even when Windows can not recognize a corrupted hard drive as usable, this software still supports recovery from a corrupt (RAW) hard drive.

Seagate Disk Check Tool

Now, download this hard drive recovery software and follow the guides below to restore lost hard disk data or recover deleted files in Windows 10/8/7.

Step 1. Select the drive where you lose your data and click 'Scan'.

Step 2. Use 'Filter' or 'Search' to find the lost files on the selected hard drive.

Step 3. Select all wanted hard drive files, click 'Recover' and browse another secure location to save them.

The video tutorial of recovering data from the hard drive.

How to format a hard drive for hard disk repair

After successful data recovery from the corrupt hard drive, format the drive in Disk Management to repair hard disk. And then, move the restored data to the hard drive.

Step 1. Right-click 'This PC' and choose 'Manage'.

Step 2. Go to 'Disk Management'.

Step 3. Right-click the target hard drive partition and choose 'Format'.

Step 4. Set the volume label, file system, and click 'OK' to start formatting the drive.

How to Prevent Hard Drive Corruption and Data Loss

How to avoid hard disk corruption and data loss trouble on your PC in Windows 10/8/7? Here below, we have some tips for you.

• Run the CHKDSK command to check and repair hard disk errors frequently.
• Clean up a virus with antivirus software in time.
• Frequently de-fragment the drive
• Do not force the shutdown system using the power button
• Back up important data on HDD regularly. (External storage devices are recommended.)
• Apply EaseUS hard disk repair software to recover HDD lost data timely once data loss trouble happens.

Hard Disk Repair Frequently Asked Questions

Read more about HDD repair and with hard drive repair software.

Can a hard disk be repaired?

How do you fix a corrupted hard drive?

You can use EaseUS free hard disk repair tool to perform HDD repair:

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1. 1. Download and install EaseUS free hard driver repair tool on your Windows computer.
2. 2. Find your hard disk, right-click it, and choose Check File System.
3. 3. The disk repair tool will check your hard disk and repair HDD error.

How to repair damaged external hard drive?

How to repair external hard drive without any cost with a free external hard drive repair software:

1. 1. Connect your external hard drive to the computer.
2. 2. Download EaseUS external hard disk repair software for free.
3. 3. Right-click the external hard disk and choose Check File System.
4. 4. EaseUS hard drive repair tool will check and fix hard drive errors it found.

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What's the best free hard drive repair software Windows 10?

• 1. Windows built-in hard disk error checking tool
• 2. EaseUS free hard drive repair software
• 3. EaseUS data recovery tool

How can I repair my hard disk with bootable hard disk repair tool?

When your hard drive is damaged and your computer can't boot, how can you repair the damaged hard drive? Download and use the pro version of EaseUS Partition Master to repair HDD with a bootable drive.

1. 1. Prepare a storage media, like a USB drive, flash drive, or a CD/DVD disc.
2. 2. Launch EaseUS Partition Master, click the WinPE Creator feature on the top.
3. 3. Follow the on-screen instructions to Create EaseUS Partition Master bootable drive.
4. 4. Start your computer from the USB bootable drive. 5. Right-click the corrupted hard disk, choose Check File System to repair HDD.

Latest news: DFL-SRP USB3.0 For Seagate will be shipped to users instead of DFL-STII.

Video Instruction Of DFL-STII here:

DFL-FRP Seagate(DFL-ST II) is one new generation Seagate hard drive firmware repair tool and users can use it to repair the damaged firmware modules, remove the passwords and repair the damaged Seagate hard drives including almost all the major families and it’s easy for this tool to add the latest families with its open and flexible design.

DFL-FRP Seagate((DFL-ST II)) hdd firmware repair tool was designed with two independent data channels: One native IDE channel connecting one IDE hard drive(For IDE hard drives, the native port is required for executing some special commands) and one SATA channel connecting one SATA hard drive. That is to say DFL-STII is able to repair firmware failures of two Seagate hard drives at the same time.

With DFL-STII hdd firmware repair tool, users are able to operate on Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, .9 and below and also the new F3 family including the latest Seagate 7200.14 hard drives. DFL-STII offers the following functions and solutions for all above families:

1, Repair two hard drives at the same time;
2, Full hdd tests;
3, Adding common commands(ATA & COM commands) easily and manually for easier and direct execution by simple clicks;

4, Read/write firmware modules;
5, Read/write ROM;
6, Read/Write SA areas;
7, Read/Write tracks;

8, Read/Write CP;
9, Auto Get HDD ID Info and display in details;
10, Adjustable baud rate and users are able to set to max when trying to read modules/tracks/SA/ROM;

11, Seagate Common failure solutions/fast solutions for data recovery purpose;
12, Sector view/editing;
13, Adaptive data editing and control;
14, View and Clear defects list/Format;
15, Smart Operations;
16, Translator operations;

17, F3 Adaptive ROM generation by loading ROM from the patient hard drive and donor hard drive. This is one creative and unique feature by Dolphin Data Lab and it’s especially useful when users swap heads of F3 hard drives. After swapping heads of F3, the original ROM will be incompatible and now users can save time and maximize the Seagate F3 head swap success rate by writing this generated adaptive ROM;

18, Unlock password protected hard drives;

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Dolphin Data Lab will keep upgrading this Seagate hdd firmware repair tool and will later release more powerful firmware repair solutions. At the same time, we are also working on the other DFL series data recovery tools.

We will keep adding new functions to this tool and users will get the new functions for free for the first three years and from the 4th year, it will be USD200 yearly fee to get the upgrade immediately! Users can still get the upgrade for free after three years but need to wait 6 months more after the upgrade is released. Please keep an eye on our official website or forum: forum.dolphindatalab.com.

How To Buy DFL-STII from Dolphin Data Lab?

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com.

We answer all emails within 24 hours, if the users don’t get reply by above email, it’s mainly due to the email system blocking our email, please then add our skype account: dolphin.data.lab