BIOS Error Codes Appear When Hard Drive Controller Fails

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Hard drive controller is the circuit, which acts as an interface between CPU and hard disk, floppy disk and other kinds of hard drive. But, there are times when a hard drive controller fails, due to which you may receive some error codes. These codes may also appear if there is any hardware failure. When a hard drive controller fails or damages, the hard drive becomes inaccessible and the system becomes unbootable, this may further create serious data loss situations. In such situations, the only thing that comes to your mind is to restore the data from an updated backup file. But, in case you have not maintained any backup, then you need to use specialized hard drive recovery services to recover your hard drive data.

A hard drive controller may fail due to power outage or failure, overheating, wear and tear, etc. When it fails, you encounter some error codes. Few error codes that you encounter after hard disk controller failure are:

01H: 'Bad Command.'

03H: 'Disk write protected (floppy)'.

04H:'Request sector not found'.

20H: 'Controller failure'.

40H: 'Seek failure'.

80H: 'Disk Timeout (failed to respond)'.

BBh: 'Undefined error'.

CCh: 'Write fault'.

When you encounter any of the above mentioned error codes, all your data present in the hard drive becomes inaccessible. In these circumstances, understanding the criticality of data, you would want to recover your data. Now, when you re-install the operating system and if the process continues without any problems or errors, then you need to use a high-quality data recovery software to recover your data from the formatted hard drive. But, in case of hardware failure or hard drive controller failure, the need for hard drive recovery service arises. These services are offered by data recovery companies. These companies employ the experience of highly qualified and talented data recovery specialists to ensure complete and error-free recovery of your data. These experts repair and replace the damaged parts of the hard drive under the safe environment of Clean Rooms to ensure comprehensive disk recovery.