No discussion of data recovery techniques would be complete without a quick look at the requirements for successful data recovery when using programs other than File Finder. Indeed all other programs for recovery of files from crashed hard drives have a major flaw that anyone attempting do it yourself data recovery should beware of.
When you download a conventional data recovery program you must install that program to a working computer other than the PC from which you hope to recover files. Why is this? Because downloads of any kind have a tendency to land on your computer’s hard drive in a somewhat random fashion. This means you’re very likely to overwrite and permanently destroy the very files you are hoping to recover. This fact is seldom mentioned by most data recovery software makers. If you cannot download the recovery software to your affected PC what should you do? Most of the data recovery methods these other software makers recommend suggest you download their software to a second computer, remove the hard drive from the computer with the missing files, and connect it to the motherboard of a working computer using cables. Obviously this is not a simple task and not one to be attempted by the average computer owner.
A far superior data recovery plan is to use File Finder. File Finder is loaded onto any computer from which you hope to recover lost files by means of that computer’s CD/DVD disk drive. You create the special File Finder recovery disk on any other available PC. Once you have burned the File Finder disk you can use it on any computer running Windows for fast and easy data recovery. The File Finder recovery disk will even allow you to start up and access files on computers with crashed hard drives.
