If it's not suffering from a true hardware failure, spinrite is fantastic. We find it fixes most of our hard drive hiccups. http://www.grc.com/intro.htm Brian Hoort From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Samone E Jones Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] Hard Drive Data Recovery Recommendations Does anyone have any good recommendations for hard drive data recovery. We need to recover data from a laptop hard drive. Any good local suggestions (preferably) but I'll take any good recommendations. Thanks, Samone ANR Technology Services 221 Ag Hall 517-353-4890