Encountering ‘1718 Hard Drive Type Error’

Hard drive is used as the main storage device in computer systems. It is comprised of one or more platters in an air sealed casing and several mechanical and electronic components working over them to access data. It can be divided into one or more partitions which can be formatted with a file system as per the operating system platform. At times a hard drive may cease to work normally and cause system crash. The nature of malfunction may be logical or physical. In such cases, to restore or recover the lost data (as per the case), you need to use an updated data backup or opt for data recovery. When there is no backup, backup is not up-to-date or is corrupt, the data recovery tools can be used to extract lost data provided the storage media is physically fine.

Consider a situation, when you bootup the system and encounter the following error message:

“1718 Hard drive type error”

Cause

Hard drive is recognized based upon its compatibility and health. The above error message may get encountered either if hard drive is corrupt or is not formatted. It can also be displayed if the hard drive is physically damaged.

Solution

Possible solutions of above issue are listed below:

• If corrupt or missing hard drive format is the issue, you need to reformat your hard drive. For this purpose, you can boot the system using a bootable drive like a bootable floppy or Windows XP CD. Formatting a partition erases all data from it. So, to restore your lost files, you need to use recent data backup. In the absence of an updated and logically intact backup, you need to go for commercial data recovery software to recover your files.

• If hard drive can’t be booted using the bootable drive, then it can be physically damaged. You should run hard drive diagnostics using a utility drive or through certain Function keys (as per the manufacturer and model), when the system starts. In case, the hard drive fails, you need to replace the hard drive and restore data from recent data backup in the new or healthy drive. If you face any backup issues or the backup is not present at all, you need to consult a data recovery service provider company and send your failed hard drive. Such recovery service provides the best solution to recover data from physically crashed storage as hard drives.

The hard drive data loss is caused by actions like format command, accidental deletion of data, partition/volume corruption, virus infection and more. Due to such issues, generally the reference entries of data files are removed but the actual files remain intact in the file system’s data area. Thus, by using recovery software which incorporate advanced scanning procedures, data can be extracted with ease.