Recover data from a corrupt hard disk When you are working with computers and in the age where the cost per gigabyte is constantly dropping, external data storage devices such USB HDD are quite common. More common than the hardware is the failure such hardware. If you've reached this blog and are still continuing to read so far, then I assume that you have an external HDD which has become inaccessible and you have some very critical data that you would like to recover. Before we proceed and dwell deep into understanding how best we can recover the data, I should warn you about a few consequences: - If the data is really 'dear' and 'important' to you, then I highly recommend contacting a professional to recover it for you. However, if you one who would NEVER want someone else to touch your data (forget about recovering it and possibly keeping a copy for themselves); then you are on the right post. I assume that you have tried a number of me