Techniques for on-demand remote diagnostics for hardware component/device failure and disk drive data recovery using embedded media are described. In one example embodiment, a hardware device failure event alert along with a unique ID and a hardware device configuration fingerprint is sent upon detecting a hardware component failure event associated with the hardware device in a datacenter to an image management framework. A recovery image associated with the hardware device failure event is then obtained using the unique ID and the hardware device configuration fingerprint. The recovery image is then stored in an embedded storage media associated with the failed hardware device. The embedded storage media is then configured as a bootable hardware device. The hardware component failure is then diagnosed using the stored recovery image and the bootable hardware device upon hardware device boot-up. Recovering from the hardware device failure based on diagnosing the hardware component failure.