Try to imagine this - Working day and night on a project, you are almost at the end of it and just when you take a break for a coffee; your computer screen turns black when you return. The whole project was ruined and you are left with nothing. What do your conclusion about the cause of sudden black out on your computer screen?

Can it be only an unexpected system shutdown? - Try to reboot your system, you can try this 2 or 3 times. Can it be a Loose Connection? – Check and tighten all the connections. Can it be a hard drive failure? – CAN IT BE POSSIBLE? First of all perform checking of your hard disk controller, which can also create this situation. You can always try to switch your hard drive from IDE1 to IDE2 and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is not solved, take out your hard disk and try to attach in to another computer system. If this doesn't work, you can expect a hard drive failure.

Does this mean that you have lost all your important data, images, files, favorite music, emails and all the important stuff saved on your computer system. At this point, it's important to stay calm, to be patience! There may be hope after all!

To recover the lost data, you have different options that you can try :

Test your hard drive on another Computer System: If you discover that your hard drive is not working properly, or there is a creepy noise from your hard drive, take out the hard disk and go test it on another computer system. If the hard drive runs on second computer system then there is no problem, you can save some data from your hard disk, but if does not, then its time to select data recovery software or data recovery services.

Hard Drive Recovery Software: To retrieve the lost data you have many hard disk data recovery software to select from. Many data recovery companies offer file recovery, data recovery software to recover data. You can try any of the software which is generally available for FREE demo downloads. These data recovery software scan your corrupt hard drive and restore all of your data from the damaged disk. Try the demo version and then purchase the FULL version of that data recovery software. These full versions are available at reasonable prices and these softwares work and recover data effectively.

Hard Drive Recovery Services: Because of high corruption level of your hard disk, the data recovery software cannot recover the data, in this situations hard drive recovery services are beneficial. In this case, data recovery is performed by a data recovery technician in Class 100 Clean room. These clean rooms are equipped with high biometric security and are the best and safe place to perform data recovery as keen observation and it is required adequate environment for this process.

These services are based on quotes on the type of media, level of corruption of your hard drive and the amount of data that you want to recover. These data recovery services are expensive and can cost you around thousands of dollars.

At the end, if you don’t want to run from company to company for the complete recovery of your data, be sure to perform regular backups of your valuable data and have a tension free and data safe world.