Recover from a slipped disk

A grinding, whining, or other odd sound emanating from your hard drive is not to be ignored. Think of it as a plea for help from a disk on the way out. If you act quickly, you may be able to save your data before the hard drive calls it quits. Back up your data immediately, if your machine will allow it. If the backup works, you can replace your hard drive and restore the data.

Even if you were unable to backup your entire hard drive (or any of it), all may not be lost. Data-recovery companies can often retrieve data when you cannot. Even hopeless-sounding cases can turn out rosy. One company boasts having recovered all the data from a computer that had been at the bottom of the Amazon River for two days.

Data recovery can cost hundreds of dollars, so you just may want to get serious about regular backups.

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