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How to Resurrect a Crashed Hard Drive

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Check out these tips, tricks, and utilities for recovering data from a crashed hard drive--whether it's been dropped, overheated, or simply worn out from old age. You can often resurrect your hard drive long enough to make copies of your critical files.

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