The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error or not accessible fatal device hardware error is a commonly seen error that causes data loss from Western Digital or Seagate hard drive. Today in this article we will focus on how to fix this issue.
Yesterday, a customer sent us an email and asked why his computer appearing the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error and he couldn't access the Seagate hard drive. Then, he asked us for help and finally fixed the issue and get back his deleted files.
That's why today we would like to tell about this issue and show you the steps to fix the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error and recover deleted files.
What is the Request Failed Due to A fatal Device Hardware Error?
To explain what is the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error happens on WD or Seagate hard drive to whom does not meet such issue before, we took a screenshot as below:
Generally, you'll get an error message showing that X: \path name is not accessible. The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error. Yet, you may receive such location is not available error message no matter from the hard drive, SD card or on Disk management on Windows 7/8/10.
At this moment, the system just informs you the device is going to the end of its life. You should hurry to download the hard drive data recovery software in order to rescue the data from the hard drive.
Consider the vital data on the hard drive, the earlier you perform the hard drive recovery, the faster you can retrieve data.
The best solution to recover data from inaccessible partition/folder/drive?
From the previous data recovery tutorials we posted on the tutorial section, you probably agree that losing data no matter from accidental deletion, formatting or even worse scenarios, such as the request failed due to fatal device hardware error, you need to format the disk before you can use it; USB shows 0 byte or any other issues from any of the storage devices, there's still not the end of the world. We still have the chance to recover the valuable data.
The first thing we need to do is download the data recovery program to fix fatal errors. Here we strongly recommend the Bitwar Data Recovery, which is dictated to allowing users to perform hard drive recovery with few clicks.
Simply click the download button to free get the Bitwar Data Recovery and then install on different partitions or devices, this is the way to make sure the data on partition or device won't be overwritten.
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