Now as we covered some of the causes let us explore your options if you ever have to perform hard disk recovery. These options are across the board whether on a Pc or a Mac, as the hard drive itself is the same. Special programs are the first in your arsenal and generally is all that is needed especially for deleted an even reformatted drives. This is possible because information is never really completely discarded from your disk but are crunched and stored away. Ever watched CSI or even read of federal cases where they have recovered hard disks that broke the case? Well this proves that your valuable info is probably still there.