Question

You have a hard drive that periodically mounts and unmounts itself. It is obviously a failing hard drive, but, you have data on the drive that you need to preserve. The drive is not part of a RAID array and is the only source of the data. How would you go about saving the data?

Answer 1

There are various chips on PCB. Hard drive PCB is so flexible but it can be become damaged during normal operations. These damages occur due to extreme heat, damage from improper handling, faulty electrical supply, manufacturing issues. But when you trouble such scenarios like hard drive mount and unmount itself and you want data from theme then that time use some steps to solve this issue. I will explain the technique;

Power off, eject it from your system. So, not connected to anything until and unless you ready to perform all important file transfer because there is no need to add more stress on that drive. Now we need a new hard drive to transfer that data so collect or buy a new hard drive because time is important when drives are going bad. Connect failing drive and file transfer (Open finder window from both the drive and just drag and drop) and that process took a long time so need to prepare for it. In our scenario, we know that our drive mounts and unmounts itself. So, when we transfer the file and that time failing to copy that data or the disk continues to unmount itself then you can try to copy the data over a small amount of time. Remember if standard file transfer fails you need to go with a third-party app like DiskDrill and many more options are there if the traditional method fails.

But before that check, one thinks also if you have MAC then launch EaseUs data recovery wizard for Mac then start selecting the flash drive and now click into Scan so that software search lost file on it. Now after completion of a quick scan and deep scan we found all the files on the left panel now select those files which you want to recover and then click on the Recover button and yes job is done.

Thus, we get out data back and these are the steps to follow for saving the data.