Typical crashed drive symptoms and error messages

Some everyday situations and error messages that would suggest that your drive might be suffering from one or more failures or other potential data loss scenarios:

  • Your hard drive is no longer recognized by the operating system or BIOS. 
  • Your hard drive was detected by the BIOS or operating system but reported as unreadable.
  • Your hard drive makes strange/funny sounds when power is applied.
  • The hard disk drive is not spinning despite power being applied.
  • Primary hard disk failure
  • Secondary hard disk failure.
  • Cannot read from the source file or disk
  • Inaccessible boot device.
  • Unable to access drive "X".
  • Disk error: press any key.
  • The device is not ready, reading drive "X".
  • Operating system not found/missing operating system.
  • The BIOS recognizes the drive but with garbage parameters.
  • The BIOS recognizes the drive, but the data is inaccessible.
  • The drive reports bad sectors.
  • NTLDR is missing; press any key to restart.
  • Replace the disk and press any key to continue.
  • The drive reads some data but reports cyclic redundancy checking (crc) errors.
  • Hard disk 3F0 boot device not found error for HP Pcs
  • Hard drive not showing up windows 11.
  • The smart hard disk has detected an imminent failure.
  • Corrupted hard drive data recovery.
  • H drive not accessible.
  • IO device error.
  • Why is my hard drive not showing up.
  • Hard drive shows up then disappears.
  • I o device error internal hard drive windows 10.
  • Incorrect status 50 smart predictive failure.
  • Hard disk not detected in boot menu.
  • Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.
  • The disk you attached was not readable by this computer.
  • Hard disk 3f0.
  • Error code 0141 no drive detected.
  • Smart status bad backup and replace.
  • The volume bitmap is incorrect.
  • Can t read from the source file or disk.
  • PC no hard drive detected.
  • Hard disk error please run the hard disk test in system diagnostics hard disk 1 3f1.
  • Hard drive not showing up in file explorer.
  • Primary master hard disk fail.
  • Fix hard drive not showing up.
  • Hard drive tick sound.