By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
When the hard drive or SSD on your computer is corrupted, your computer will display the message "The request failed due to fatal hardware error" or the error code "Error 0x800701e3".
This is a common error for storage devices such as removable hard drives, USB flash drives, and SD cards. But it may be the first time you encounter this situation. Therefore, this article will introduce the causes and solutions for this error to occur.In addition, we will also share a quick way to recover data after fixing the fatal device hardware error.
When the computer says "Request failed due to a fatal hardware error", it means that you can no longer access the data inside the hard drive properly. What's worse, important files stored in this hard drive may be lost completely. Generally speaking, the following are the reasons why a "fatal device hardware error" occurs.
1. There is a problem with the connection between the hard drive and the computer. A damaged USB cable or port, loose connection, etc., these can prevent the computer system from accessing the hard drive data.
2. Outdated drivers.
3. Bad sectors exist on the hard drive.
4. A fault in the hard drive.
5. The hard drive is dying.
SMART attribute data records the most important information about the drive's operation, such as current runtime, boot conditions, link errors, etc. You can enable SMART attributes to assess the "health" of the SSD, and then take appropriate action based on the analysis to fix the request failed due to fatal hardware error.
Step 1: Run the CMD program as administrator.
Step 2: After entering the command prompt, type and execute this command "wmic diskdrive get status".
Step 3: You will get the following analysis results.
•"OK" - indicates that the status of the drive is normal. If the "Fatal device hardware error" still exists, go to the other solutions in this article.
•"Bad" or "Caution" - your drive is damaged or about to fail. When a hard drive is severely damaged, we recommend that you replace it and clone your data to a new one as soon as possible, rather than waiting until it is completely corrupted.
•"Unknown" - This command cannot analyze the drive, but if your drive continues to have some errors, you should back up your data first to avoid data loss.
Outdated drivers can interrupt the operation of your hard drive at any time and lead to fatal hard drive errors, you can update the driver of your disk by following these steps.
Step 1: Press the "Windows + X" shortcut and select the "Device Manager" option.
Step 2: Scroll down the page and locate "Disk Drives" to expand the list of hard drive devices and then right-click on the hard drive with the fatal device error.
Step 3: Click on "Update Drivers" > "Automatically search for driver software online" and wait for the process to complete. Then restart your computer and check if the drive has been restored to its normal state.
You can run the chkdsk command to scan and fix minor errors in your hard drive. This program can help fix some faults in your hard drive system, including "Request failed due to fatal device hardware error".
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Step 1: Press "Win + S" to open the search box and type the command prompt "CMD".
Step 2: Right-click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run as administrator".
Step 3: Copy and paste the command "chkdsk E: /f" or "chkdsk E: /f /r /x" in the Run window and press Enter. (E stands for the wrong hard drive disk letter, you should replace it with the actual drive letter).
If all the above methods fail, then formatting the hard drive is the last way to effectively fix the fatal device hardware error. If the hard drive has a "disk not initialized" error, you need to initialize it after formatting the hard drive.
Step 1: Press the "Windows + X" shortcut to open the system menu bar and click the Disk Manager option.
Step 2: Right-click on the hard drive that needs to be formatted and select the "Format" option, then uncheck the "Quick Format". Click "OK" and wait patiently for the formatting process to complete.
Step 3: Locate the hard drive that you have shown as uninitialized, right-click on it, and select "Initialize Disk", then select the MBR or GPT disk partition form and continue.
Step 4: Once the initialization is complete, create partitions for the disk drive. Now you can check if this hard drive is in a normal state.
It is inevitable that your hard drive will lose some data after fixing the "fatal device hardware error". iSunshare BitGenius is a reliable data recovery tool that can recover lost data from any formatted or corrupted storage device, including video, audio, pictures and documents.
Step 1: Scan hard drive partitions. Select the hard drive where you lost data or you can customize the scan location, it can be a single partition, computer desktop, folder, etc.
Then click "Start" and iSunshare BitGenius will start scanning all deleted or formatted files on the selected hard drive.
Step 2: Check the scan results. After the scan is finished, you can preview the file names in the window.
Or you can click the "Filter" option in the top menu to locate your target files more easily.
Step 3: Recover the lost data. check the files you need to recover. Click the "Recover" button in the lower right corner and select the destination folder where you want to store the files.
Note: You should choose another disk to save these recovered files instead of the original disk to avoid data overwriting.
Step 4: Soon, you will get a pop-up window indicating that the data has been successfully recovered and you can click the "Yes" button to check the recovered files immediately.
The full name of chkdsk is checkdisk, which creates and displays a status report of the disk and marks bad sectors on the hard disk. The Windows will not read data on bad sectors, and if your files are stored on bad sectors, they will be lost because they will not be accessed by the computer system.
Of course you can. With the help of reliable data recovery software - iSunshare BitGenius, you can easily recover any kind of lost files from corrupted hard drive at any time.
If your computer receives the message "the request failed due to fatal hardware error", you should immediately backup the data on your hard drive and then try the methods shared above to repair the hard drive failure. After the hard drive repair is completed, you may find that some of the data stored on the hard drive is lost. You don't have to panic, because the iSunshare BitGenius can easily recover the lost data on your hard drive.
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