How to Recover a Dead Hard Disk: 4 Methods

I have had my fair share of hard drive fails, and a lack of knowlegde has often caused me to discard of them in frustration because of lost data, but not any more!

Sure you could pay money to have your data saved, but why not save that money, try it yourself and use that money to buy a new hard drive. Just a thought, anyway here is a wikihow
How to Recover a Dead Hard Disk: 4 Methods - wikiHow

Selecting a Hard drive
Prevention is better than cure, and while recovering a hard drive is possible, sometime its not, and hard drives don't last forever, but like everything PC, there are the good and there are the bad. So take time and effort to invest in proper hardware.
Reliability, speed, space, and efficiency.
Here is a boring, but very informative video on selecting a hardrive.