Symptoms and Causes of Data Loss

Physical and logical damage, symptoms and causes of data loss

• Seagate Firmware Error
• Defective Documents and Corrupt Data
• Input/Output (I/O) Device Error
• External Hard Drive is not recognized
• Hard Drive Bearing Damage
• Defective Hard Drive Enginge
• Headcrash
• Defective Hard Drive Board
• Water Damage
• Formatted Data Carrier
• Encrypted Storage Media
• Mailbox Restoration (Outlook)
• Corruptive Backups and Archives
• Damaged Photo and Video Files

Symptomatic error messages

• „Startup device not found“
• „USB device not found“
• „USB device not reognized“
• „No USB device found“
• „No boot device found“
• „No bootable devices found“
• „No boot device available“
• „Boot device not found“
• „Insert boot disk and press any key“
• „Please restart system“
• „Operating system not found“
• „No system volume“
• „Volume error“
• „You need to format the disk before you can use it“
• „You need to format the disk in drive“
• „File or directory is damaged and not readable"
• „I/O read error“
• „No access to the device, path or file"
• „File path not found“
• „Path not found“
• „Windows cannot repair computer automatically"
• „Hard disk error“
• „Cluster accounting failed“
• „Volume is corrupt, run chkdsk“
• „Bad blocks encountered“
• „Read sector failure“
• „Bootmgr is missing“
• „Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device“
• „File system error“
• “Extended attributes are inconsistent”