In many cases, the answer to this question is yes. The success rate for data recovery professionals is about 75-85%. Nevertheless, you must remember, there are times when the data is just lost due to extensive damage to the platter or unavailability of replacement parts.

If you have a hard drive that has crashed, the first and most important thing that you can do is contact a data recovery professional immediately. Make sure you are not being charged a fee if you have a standard IDE hard drives. Most companies only charge evaluation fees for complex RAID data recovery and network server drives.

It is important to call and talk with the companies. When you find one that you feel comfortable with, give them a chance. Your hardest job, may be finding a hard disk recovery that actually has someone available to answer the phones. Nevertheless, ask questions and be sure to have the following information available:

1. Size of the drive (20 GB-100 GB) as well as how many drives are involved
2. Operating system (i.e. Windows 98, Windows XP, Vista, etc.)
3. Type of failure (what happened just before the system stopped working)
4. Error messages received (i.e. drive not recognized by system, memory access denied, etc.)

To avoid future problems, make sure you always backup your important information on a daily basis. This will ensure that you never lose what you need.

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