Wednesday, October 19, 2011

How to resolve “Invalid Media Type” hard drive failure error message

The system hard drive can endure for various several years, but the hard drive failure and system data decline remains an undesired truth. Each and every System user ought to realize that the hard drive failing is a really actual chance.  The major trigger of hard drive failure is software malfunctioning, consumer faults and rising quantity of malicious courses. So the tough hard drives get ruined and render your important data inaccessible. The hard drive failure is usually indicated by numerous symptoms such as the odd noise from hard drive  this sort of as clicking, scrapping and grinding, associated error messages etc.

 
Here I am explaining an annoying hard disk failure error message which fail to boot your system & you come across with this error message a couple of times:

 
””””””””””””””””””“Invalid Media Type””””””””””””””””””””””””

 
What might have triggered this error message?

 
Such error message pop up when your PC fails to locate the desired media type descriptor. Apart from this reasons,  some other common reasons are:


1. Physical damage to the drive
2. Inaccurate drive format
3. Hard drive partitioned but not formatted

 
To resolve this error problem you need to follow these steps:


1. Boot the hard drive using another storage media such as bootable floppy disk followed by executing fdisk/mbr and sys C: command.
2. After using above steps if error still persists then disk format is considered to be the solution.
3. Even after booting if the error message still persists then error problem is due to damage to the drive.

 
If first solution could not solve the error then you are recommended to use second & third solutions. Second solution is to be format the hard disk in order to fix the error problem . Once you will format the hard drive though the error message gets resolve but all the previously stored data from the disk gets erased. Second solution handle with backup file that can be a medium through which you can restore all your data to resolve drive damage. But the situation turns to be critical when there is no backup available.
 

In both situations third party hard drive recovery can become the ultimate source to recover the lost data. The software designed with advance scanning technique which capable enough to restore data even from formatted hard drive.

 
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