What not to do in case of Hard Drive Failure?
Hard Drive failure can bring in about panic, chaos and bad decision making in a very short period of time. The first thing you need to do is STOP. Stop where ever you are and DO NOT try anything before you get hold of things. There is a right way and a wrong way for data recovery on just about any system. And most of the people do it the wrong way. Here's a few tips and information on what not to do, in regards to data recovery. · Do not open your hard drive and expose data. Only a qualified hard drive data recovery engineer in a certified clean room environment should ever open a hard drive. · There may be firmware/system area conflict issues that may cause major problems so never try to swap circuit boards on modern drives. · Do not ask your friends for help if they are not qualified data recovery engineer . · ...