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