Data Recovery Glossary > Logical Damage

Logical damage refers to a state in which the storage media is intact but the data contained in it is damaged/lost/corrupted. Logical damage caused to the storage media leaves the file system in an inconsistent state. Primary causes for logical damage are accidental formatting of hard disk, drive crash, bad sectors, backup failure, virus attack, boot and partition structure corruption, power outages etc.

Logical damage to a storage media leads to system crash, considerable amount of data loss and strange behavior of the hard disk like infinitely recursing directories, reporting negative amounts of free space etc.

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