Hard drives are complicated little devices. Whatever way your hard drive meets its end, it’s a certainty you’ll see it happen if you use a PC long enough. Sometimes you can hear it coming, sometimes it happens suddenly in the middle of a project, and other times it just refuses to boot one morning. No matter how well you care for it, however, at some point that drive is going to fail. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive.
