In today's day and age, even with all the advancements in computers and technologies, hard drive crashes are still all too common.
There are a few reasons for this, which will be looked at below.
Knowing the causes of hard drives crashing can help you prevent it happening to you, and causing you to lose all your data if you don't have a backup.
You may have heard a lot of ideas on why computers fail - from you put too much information on the drive (not likely) to you deleted files too often (also not likely to cause a drive crash.
) The biggest reasons disks fail is a physical problem with the media - in the case of a hard drive, the media that holds all the information.
It's not that companies make hard drives cheap, but they're complex and have a tendency to break down over time, especially if they're used frequently.
  You might think paying the most you can for the best computer out there is the solution, but it's not.
Even the best hardware crashes sometimes.
If your disk drive is about to go bad, there are certain things you can watch for so you know when it's a good idea to get a fresh backup or purchase a new one.
   Hard Drive Failure Symptoms - If you hear a loud clicking or whirring noises from your hard drive, it could be a sign it's about to go out.
- If you suffer from frequent blue screen error messages in Windows, it could be a sign that your disk is about to go out.
- If you get a message that your drive isn't formatted, it could be that it has gone bad, especially if you know the drive is formatted already.
  All is not lost, though.
A lot of great technologies exist to recover your data.
It's a sad fact of life, but drive crashes are all too common, even with modern technology.
With that in mind, it's good to have a backup plan in place and be aware of the signs that a hard drive is going bad before it actually goes bad on you and you lose your data.