Your computer’s hard drive stores everything from your precious baby photos and financial data to your coveted illegal music catalog and work documents, among other things.

If you think you're dealing with a dead computer, don't panic. Follow these steps to try to save it—or at least recover your files.

Recover Your Data with Software When dealing with a software data loss, the first and most important thing to keep in mind is not to work with the drive in question.

How to Reformat a Hard Drive with a Recovery CD. Your computer's hard drive stores important files, programs and data that your business can't do without. When programs won't launch or Windows ...

Tenorshare 4DDiG can recover your data from external hard drives. Here are also three more alternative methods to try.

Q. I have a hard drive with valuable information on it, but I can't seem to access it — the drive is either damaged or erased. Is there any way I can see what's on the drive and get it off? Don ...

Having trouble accessing the data on your WD My Passport hard drive? Wondershare's Recoverit might be what you need to help.

But what do you do if your computer has already crashed? You can still recover the keys from the broken computer's hard drive.

Have a broken hard drive? There may be a cheap solution to getting those irreplaceable pictures off of that broken hard drive without spending a dime.

Before Friday's school massacre, Adam Lanza removed his computer disk drive and smashed it, making it difficult, if not impossible, to recover data, authorities and tech experts say. Lanza may ...