6. Beware of Bananas - A customer left an old banana on the top of his external hard drive which proceeded to seep its contents into the drive, ruining the circuitry. The drive would no longer run, but the circuit board was eventually repaired. The banana wasn't so fortunate.

5. Hard Drive Speed Bump - It happens every year, but people continue to leave computers and hard drives in the path of moving vehicles. This year alone, Ontrack recovered from a laptop that was run over by a "people mover" at the airport, and several external hard drives stuffed in a backpack that was backed over by a truck.

4. Tenth Time's the Charm - A man reformatted his hard drive not once, not twice, but ten times before he realized there was some valuable information he needed recovered.

3. Finding Nemo - A customer returned from the vacation of a lifetime in Barbados to discover that he couldn't access any of the snorkeling photos he took on his new "waterproof" digital camera. It seems the camera wasn't as waterproof as advertised.

2. Squeaky Drive Gets the Grease - A university professor heard a squeaking noise from the drive of his new desktop computer. To solve the annoying problem, he opened the case and sprayed the inside of the drive with WD-40. Although successful in stopping the drive from squeaking, his actions also prevented the drive from booting up.