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Is your Linux hard drive crashing abruptly every time when you boot your system? Are you unable to boot your Linux computer and access data from it? Well, the problem may occur due to numerous reasons, which cause hard drive crash. Most commonly, this problem occurs due missing or corrupt data structures of your Linux hard drive. Due to the same, operating system can not locate stored files on the hard drive and access them. At this point, you need to opt for Linux data recovery solutions to get your valuable data recovered.

Crash of a Linux hard drive is indicated by various symptoms. Such symptoms include the following ones:

Your Linux operating system-based computer does not boot up.

You encounter various error messages, such as "No Fixed Disk Present" or "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

Black or blank screen after you power up your system.

System reboots, freezes, or stops responding frequently.

"Operating system not found" and "Drive not formatted" messages.

Hard drive crash can be caused by various reasons and renders entire system inaccessible. The most common reasons of Linux hard drive crash are as given below:

Boot sector virus or damaged MBR (Master Boot Record).

Corrupted or damaged file system of Linux hard drive.

Missing or damaged system files or operating system.

Virus infection.

Corrupt Superblock or other critical meta data structures.

When system crash occurs, it becomes impossible for the operating system to locate files on hard drive. If it can not locate and access the files, which are required by Linux operating system to boot up, the boot process fails.

In order to fix a crashed Linux hard drive and perform Data Recovery Linux, you are required to format it and reinstall operating system. This process replaces all the missing, corrupt, or damaged system resources and bring the hard drive back to life. However, it also removes all the data from hard drive and create needs of Linux recovery.

Recovery is best possible using advanced and efficient commercial software, known as Linux recovery software. They use high-end scanning techniques to carry out in-depth scan of entire Linux hard drive to extract all lost data from it.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is an easy to use and read-only utility that recovers your valuable data in all data loss situations. The software works well with all major distributions of Linux operating system, including SUSE, Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu. It recovers lost data from Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.