Hard drives fail, it happens. We explain how you can avoid data loss, but also how to restore lost data from a hard drive should the worst happen.

While the primary focus is recovering data from a hard disk drive (HDD), we also look increasingly popular Flash-based, solid-state drive (SSD) storage.

Data recovery specialist Secure Data Recovery has shared the results of a recovery project that attempted to find out how many files could be recovered from a large number of hard drives (rather ...

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A follow-up to our report of our recent hard drive failure: As you may recall, we sent our hard drive to DriveSavers for data recovery. They were nothing short of amazing. They confirmed that the ...

Hard drive failures can be tough to bear, particularly for the average person who doesn’t back up. When it comes to data recovery, there’s always those bleating from the sidelines that it’s ...

I recently had a 40GB Maxtor HDD bite the dust on me. It isnt recognized by the BIOS, but oddly the IDE check on boot-up does see it, and says it fails. I have an identical 40GB drive that I ...

For storage in 2025, choose SSD for speed, HDD for budget capacity, and RAID for performance, redundancy, or both, based on your needs. For complex data recovery, especially with RAID, consider ...