Abstract: A system for the recovery of data from a failing or failed hard drive including a computer, computer software and a chamber. The computer has a first hard drive and a second hard drive attached thereto. The first hard is the failed or failing hard drive, and the second hard drive is a hard drive to which data may be copied from the first hard drive. The computer software is executed by the computer for copying data contained on the first hard drive to the second hard drive. The chamber encloses at least the first hard drive. The chamber is in communication with the computer and is capable of altering at least one property of environment within the chamber programmatically at direction of the computer software in order to recover data from the first hard drive that was not readable by the computer before the property of environment was altered. An example of the properties are pressure, temperature, spindle motor current and vibration.