Afraid of losing some very important documents are a great concern, especially for huge corporations. Data recovery has come along way with some of the greatest technology out there now.
There are three main things you need when doing a recovery which include

• Drive Recovery – Recreate directory structure from a damaged MFT to retrieve lost partitions
• Deleted Files – Search for all files accidentally deleted
• Raw Data Recovery – Exhaustive search to find file signatures and reconstruct files

There are many programs now that even the most novice computer user can run and be able to smoothly help you boot up your computer, so you can get into the failed drive and retrieve important information before you lose it totally. Many programs will get you back up and running after a power failure, lost partitions, viruses, and much more.

There are even data recovery companies that can help you retrieve data that has been in fires, or even the waterlogged computer from firefighters battling the blaze. There is a very low chance that your information cannot be recovered, but 90% of the time, it can.