If you're dealing with a hard drive failure it can be hard to know whether you’re dealing with a minor blip or a time bomb. Here's what to do.

Originally, the term hard drive crash referred to the head literally crashing into the platter, causing serious damage to your hardware and data. Apple’s WWDC 2025 takes place June 9-13.

The industry uses the word crash to mean both. I’ll focus on the physical crash, which is much more serious. However, be aware that a virus can make a hard drive look as if it suffered a physical ...

If you have a hard drive you want to recycle, remember the data may still live on. Proper drive destruction can protect you and your data once you've backed it up somewhere else.

The simply (and aptly) named Outlook Repair is a free utility that can recover and restore your Outlook PST and OST data files, even on a hard drive that has been damaged or formatted.

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.