Can a Hard Drive Work with One Dead Head?
In a recent forum discussion that went on a tangent about the risks of running DIY data recovery programs without properly diagnosing a hard drive, one data recovery specialist had the understanding that if a drive detected and was able to read data, the heads must be...
Hard Drive Recovery by Brand Statistics
Based on a snapshot of about 200 sequential projects that came in at the first of 2013, we have produced the following chart outlining the percentage of drives we have seen, based on the hard drive manufacturer.

Just for fun – Amateur steps on how not to safely recovery data
Over the past few years, we've seen numerous posts on the internet and engaged in conversations with technicians and end users who believe they know more about data recovery than we do. Here is a summary of the "Right" way of doing data recovery according to those...