Over the last few years, the reliability and storage capacity of hard disks has increased dramatically to meet the demands of powerful and disk hungry operating systems. However, there are occasions where hard disks fail. This could be for a multitude of reasons, including failures due to natural disasters such as lightning strikes, power surges or down to simple human error, your data is no longer accessible. There are several indications that data has been lost and we have recovered data from hard disks where normally the data loss situation has been considered a write-off.

There are many data recovery tools on the market, which when used properly can perform recovery from formatted hard disks and virus attack, etc. When there is a physical problem with the hard disk, these tools do not work, and we do not recommend using them particularly if they are running slower than expected or the drive makes noises. If you require data recovery software then please go to our software page .

Your computer may produce error messages along the lines of;