How to Fix The Request Failed Due to a Fatal Device Hardware Error?

What is "the request failed due to a fatal device hardware" error? This type of error usually occurs with HDD and SSD hard drives. When you’ll encounter this error, it’ll become impossible to access the hard drive and you might even end up losing your valuable data.

Timestamps:
0:00s Intro
1:37 Method 1: Verify Hard Drive Using Smart Attributes
2:34 Method 2: Reformat the Disk and Initialize
3:11 Method 3: Run Disk Error Checking
4:02 Method 4: Check and Repair Bad Sectors
4:55 Bonus: How to Recover Data from Inaccessible Hard Disk after Fatal Device Hardware Error

There are common reasons that triggers the fatal device hardware error including bad sectors in your hard drive, damaged USB cable you are using to connect your hard drive, the driver is outdated. When it occurs, how to fix the “The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error"? First, you can verify hard drive using Smart Attributes which aims to check the health status of your hard drive. If it doesn't work, you can reformat the disk and initialize. If you’re still encountering the fatal device hardware error, you can run “Disk Check” to check the issues. “Disk Check” is used to find bad sectors, potential errors, bad clusters, etc. The “Disk Check” tool will automatically scan and fix your hard drive and you’ll be able to access it. If nothing fixes the problem, it’s quite possible that your hard drive has bad sectors. In this situation, you’ll have to manually repair these sectors using Windows official CHKDSK utility. Moreover, if your hard drive is inaccessible and has no solution, and you worry about your data in the hard drive, it is recommended to use Wondershare Recoverit to recover data from the inaccessible hard drive.

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[dbug]

I will never understand why some people boldly make videos of themselves in which they totally contradict themselves.
The topic is *How to Fix The Request Failed Due to a Fatal Device Hardware Error* <<<< an inaccessible hard disk, and yet in all your presentations, you are working on accessible hard disks with no problem to fix.

[cpskrbv]

None of the solutions presented here are applicable when the error appears on disk management, and the disk has no letters, also the people may be wanting to recover the disk itself regardless of the data, the status of the disk id is OK yet it doesn't appear on explorer.

[lyteyearz]

I look at all of the comments and you've replied to all except the main problem which is first getting past Unknown Not Initialized. You can't try any methods if the computer can't see it. Sorry just frustrated, please help.

[dangerdavis]

This doesn't work if the disk cannot be initialized at all. It won't have a drive letter associated with it.

[jamesvespucci]

dude I hate to say but horribly unhelpful for like 80 percent of all the ACTUAL issues I've seen with hard drives. Missing partitions or anything? Can't get into it to initialize? dude cmon at least respond to the comments ffs

[pluflop]

On method 4, I can't get past step 3: examining security descriptors. I get "disk read error c0000483
Insufficient disk space to fix the Usn Journal $J data stream"

[mskiara]

What if my hard drive became raw and is unknown - not initialized? Is there any options that can help?

[remingtoncase]

i cannot run trouble shoot because the harddrive is not in my file explorer

[GreenKaizer]

I can't proceed to the other methods because my drive does not appear. how do I get it to appear?

[kuljeetsingh]

when i tried wmic utility it's shows ok.... afetr that i tried other methods they are not working...can you suggest me how can i reslove this error

[adorethered]

my drive had this error after a usb port on one of my pc's was nudged. now the external drive clicks when it spins and I get this error when I go to check it. I get the "chkdisk can't access raw drives" It's never been a raw format drive. and none of the other methods yield any results. is my drive dead?

[snayges]

hey umm my one is under network place when i connect my harddrive all i want is to format but it doesnt work and when i go to properties i cant go anywhere else to check it

[treeko]

method five for me just says "cannot open volume for direct access." i think its cause i accidentally dropped it pretty hard on the floor yesterday cause after then it just stopped working

[gyirssf]

Thank you. After trying method 4, I got the message "unable to open disk for full access" or something like that. At that point I unplugged my hard drive's power and USB, reseated them both, and it was detected

[luigipapo]

What if u don’t have a letter? For the drive because it’s not initialized

[creakimoi]

Hi anyone have any help on fixing a fatal device hardware error on a brand new, just opened, unformatted, uninitialized hard drive that has no letter attached to it because I can't initialize, format, or assign a drive letter as I keep getting a fatal device hardware error and I can't scan it as my pc hasn't the faintest idea what to scan due to not being able to assign it as anything.

[ixddggo]

very right …when you try to initialize disk >> GPT or MBR >> the request failed due to fatal device hardware error... if you cant access how can you format it? for me it was useless explanation.

[moteb]

Thanks, method 4 sorted me out! lifesaver!

[Badawi]

in the method 4 says when i write chkdsk : the type of the file system is raw chkdsk is not available for raw drives

[anakin]

totally useless as the ssd is not recognizable in the first place. How to we recover that drive that is not seen by windows? Or how do we fix it in cmd?