Hard drive data recovery is typically used to refer to a very expensive process performed by data recovery service labs. These repair stations would dismantle frozen hard disks and either repair them to be used again or repair them temporarily so that the data contained on that magnetic disk could be transferred to another storage device in better condition. Hard disks made in the last five years are incredibly durable. 
In fact physical failure of the computer hard drive is an extremely rare occurrence. What does happen to an internal drive is that during startup or shutdown a computer’s operating system files are occasionally corrupted. Get enough of these damaged and Windows will not load. Your computer will not start. So not only do you have a problem of being unable to use your PC you are also faced with the difficulty of not being able to access any of your stored files or records.
Now you could remove your internal disk from your desktop or laptop computer and send it off to a service lab. But the average cost to copy out the files on a 250 GB unit is well over $500.00.
Additional options for retrieving your data
There are other alternatives. They are to download onto a working PC a conventional hard drive data recovery program. These cost around $100.00 and require you to install them on the working PC, and connect it by serial cable to the failed component. This system allows you access to your stored files. Once you copy the files out of the failed hardware, you’re free to reload the operating system and put your computer back into service.
The only problem with this system is that you will need to dismantle two PCs and connect them together using serial or parallel ATA cables. It is more than likely that unless you are a PC technician that you don’t even know what these cables are let alone have them in your possession. Why should you? You are a computer user not a repairman.
Is there a practical solution for this problem?
So now we have ruled out two methods for getting important data out of your hard disk. One is too expensive and the other is too complicated.
Luckily there remains a practical and inexpensive hard drive data recovery solution. And that is to use FileFinder. Unlike every other program in existence to scan for and find data our software does not require connection to a second PC. FileFinder loads on to any laptop or desktop computer directly to the CD/DVD drive. The application then starts that computer allowing access to every file stored including files that had been deleted.
