Alchemist-hp . Hard disk head crash. But there are other, less spectacular mechanical crashes. If the head alignment goes off by just a few nanometers, the drive could become unusable.

But, hard drive death beat me too it ... key if it thinks I have another activated copy out there? Now that I've crashed, this is obviously a problem regardless of whether I use VMware or not ...

A reader wants to know if a USB caddy can be used to recover data from a hard drive that has crashed. A reader wants to know how to convert a USB port into a HDMI connection Credit: Photo ...

Zeterjons asked the Utilities forum how to rescue files off of a physically crashed hard drive, while making sure that other files on that hard drive are destroyed beyond rescue. [Email your tech ...

Data recovery specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data stored on a disk drive used to store information gathered by astronauts on the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia.