Whats to stop me saving money by using a DIY file recovery programme?
You may very well, indeed, save money by sourcing and utilising a file recovery programme of your choice. However, if your hard disk drive has suffered a mechanical failure, you may do more harm than good. You may actually worsen the data loss situation, making any further data recovery attempt less productive. We appreciate your emphasis to save money, but ours is to save your data! And we demonstrate that emphasis by including this (some would say, awkward,) question in our published FAQs.