Hard drives fail. Unfortunately, sometimes when the time comes you're unprepared. For shame. Well, we won't judge. We've all been there. Here's hoping next time you'll take our advice about backups, though.

When that essential hard drive stops reading and starts clicking, there's a chance the data can be recovered. RBG can offer various grades of hard-drive recovery options

We're not going to sugar coat this. Data recovery from a failed hard drive can be a crap-shoot. As with any gamble, it can also be expensive. If it is recovered, there's a chance the file-names or other useful metadata could be gone. There's a chance the data is completely gone - unrecoverable.

Still, there is always a chance that we can recover the data, and if it's important to you, it's certainly worth trying.

Sometimes your data isn't lost due to hard-drive failure. We've all accidentally deleted something. User error. Not enough coffee. Often-times those deleted files can be recovered, especially if they are in a common format. In these cases, it is very important that you stop working with the drive in question. Shut it off, so you don't risk further overwriting the deleted files.