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When the mechanical portions of your hard drive fail, it is impossible for you to operate the drive

in order to recover your data. In this case you may need to contact a professional data recovery

service. If you were careful, you would have made backups of your important data. In this case

it becomes simple to replace the data on a new drive. If you do not have any backups then you

may be in trouble.

A data recovery service is a company that retrieves files from hard drives that have been

damaged. While data recovery software can be used to recover information that has been

deleted or from hard drives that have been corrupted, if there is physical damage to the drive,

you will probably need to call a data recovery service. One way to tell if there is physical

damage to your drive is if there are unusual sounds coming from it, especially clicking, buzzing

or scraping noises.

For a non-functioning drive, the information may still be on the drive, but just inaccessible to

you. A technician may be able to recover the data. There are many companies out there that

offer data recovery services.

How such companies usually operate is that you send your drive to them via courier. They will

then try to repair the drive in their clean room, which will prevent dust and other contaminants

from further damaging your drive. If successful, they will either send the now functioning drive

back to you, or in the case of data recovery from a completely inoperable drive, they can send

just the data in any form you desire.

When looking online for a data recovery service, you will want to be wary of companies who

cannot offer some guarantee about their work. Check to see if company can store your data

after recovery, in order to give you a chance to make sure that it is properly and completely

installed on your own system.