Can’t Detect SATA? How to Recover Data from It?

SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment is a computer bus basically designed for transferring data between computer system and storage devices (such as hard drives and optical drives). SATA is most commonly used in Seagate hard drives.

SATA was designed as a successor to the legacy ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) standard, and is expected to eventually replace the older technology (PATA or Parallel ATA). SATA adapters and devices communicate over a high speed serial cable.

The main benefits of SATA are faster data transfer, less power consumption, better performance, ability to add or remove devices while operating, more reliable operation with tighter data integrity check then its older version and thinner cables that let air cooling work more efficiently.

Though SATA hard drives are more reliable and efficient then PATA hard drives, but these may also create problems. Sometimes when you start your computer, you may find an error message on your computer's screen- "Can't detect SATA" and your computer can't boot. In such conditions your system can't detect your hard drive and can't read the operating system from your hard drive.

This problem may occur due to two reasons- Hardware and software. Hardware reasons include bad jumper setting, hard drive controller failure, and hard drive internal physical problems like head crash or motor stop.

Software reasons include operating system corruption, sudden catastrophic failure and other hard disk driver failure. Any of these failures, no matter what is the type, can make the hard drive inaccessible and may cause data loss.

Software reasons are the most commonly happening things that cause data loss. These are the logical error that can cause a big data loss. In such circumstances you should always back up your data. But in case you didn't back up your data and data loss is occurred, you need data recovery.

In case of software reason of data loss, you can recover your data with the help of Data Recovery Software. This software is available in the market with a wide range of choice for the user. You can purchase any suitable software and can recover data from your inaccessible hard drive. You should always purchase software according to the operating system and the file system of your computer and type of data loss.

Before purchasing a software, you should make sure that the particular software you are going to purchase will support your operating system and file system or not, or this software can recover your data in your case.