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Storage prices are dropping like flies but when your hard disk crashes, you’ll be cursing your heads off when your CEO is chasing you for some important files. What can you do ? Instead of calling up your friendly professional data recovery service, head on over to this article to learn how to resurrect a dead disk and you’ll learn that a disk platter is not just a word associated with food.

Overall, fixing a hard drive comes down to software tools, and then rarely hardware swaps. If it is hardware, then you are usually looking at a board swap, and barring that, things get messy. In any case it is doable to fix things yourself, but be prepared to break a few drives. Experimentation on non-critical data is recommended, try it and have fun.