Hard Drive Death is Not the End of the World - Computer Forensics 101

Everyone fears losing their data; Governments, Big Corporations, Nonprofits and you and I as well. Imagine losing all your work and the hard drive on your computer. Today, most of the laptops and computers we buy have parts in them made all over the world, many of these parts are built in places that exploit labor and are not as modern as the factories in the United States, and their quality control is not as stellar as you might assume, even if at one time they were ISO 9000 certified.

It is for this reason that hard drive death, not just crashes are much more common than you might think. You can ask any computer forensic specialist or the local computer repair person in your town to confirm this. We just all hope it does not happen to us. Maybe that is why we often back up our files just in case, not a bad idea at all.

But just because your hard drive dies does not necessarily mean that your data is lost, it might be, but there is still a really good chance that it is not lost. You see, this data is still there even if the circuit board on the hard drive has burned up, failed or just will not work. One thing that computer forensic specialists are able to do is to take that hard drive out and remove the chip and circuit board and then put another one on from another hard drive exactly like it.

They say that often this will do the trick and they have success rates up to 45%, so just because you think your hard drive is dead and caput does not mean the data inside died with it. Computer forensics can give it a new heart and retrieve the data that is stored within, please remember this if your hard drive is dead or destroyed.

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