Hard disks are the most popular storage media that could handle huge volumes of data. Hard disks may break down or crash due to a number of reasons. They are classified in to two types such as physical failure and logical failure. The physical failures are due to dust, water, heat, moisture and other such catastrophic attacks. They could be identified through an unfamiliar noise coming out of the drive, read and write heads getting crashed or getting stick with the disk platters, spindle motor system getting failed and so. The logical failures can be due to accidental deletion of files and format, viruses, data corruption and so. The hard disk drive crash occurred due to data corruption takes up the logical type of failure and hence we can Recover files from crashed hard drive more easily than its counterparts. When a person predicts the possibility of a hard disk drive crash, the first thing he need to do is to stop working on the device any more. Secondly, he should avoid using any repair utilities as thy may cause permanent data loss. Also he should not try to save or re-install any applications on the crashed software. The final thing that he needs to do is the actual recovery of the hard disk data through recovery software.