Is your hard drive failed and your various workaround direct you to a techincal problem? If your hard drive is still under warranty, you can use the procedures of product returns (RMA) of most manufacturers to resubmit your hard drive and receive a new one instead.
If you are unable to access your hard drive, this can have various origins. This may be due to a logical problem in partitions or boot sector of the disk and if so, a free program like TestDisk can help you repair and recover files that are on them. In the case of a mechanical problem where the hard drive makes a strange noise, do not start or if cyclic redundancy errors or bad clusters, your disk drive is no longer usable.
You can then use the guarantee of your hard drive for its replacement by a functional product. Most hard drive manufacturers offer in effect procedures for product returns (RMA) to return your failed hard drive and receive a new one instead. Note that these programs fail to recover data on your hard drive fails. To do this, you must turn to specialized companies fairly expensive.
You must therefore make a line on what was on your hard drive, but this is not a concern since, as we remind you often, you've made backups .
RMA pages for different manufacturers:
Below are the pages of various manufacturers containing the forms to complete to check the warranty on your hard drive and request a return.
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