Hard drive failure can only be the result of one of two options. Those are physical damage, wear and the motor operating your computer’s hard drive or the control board directing that motor has failed. Or the files which controlled access to your computer’s hard drive have been damaged. Amazingly the same files are stored on the hard drive itself. This blocks you from starting Windows and replacing the damaged files. If your hard drive is physically damaged, which we should add is a rare occurrence, you will need to replace that entire drive and in order to recover files from that damaged hard drive you will need to at least temporarily restore the drive to functionality.
Remember, hard drive failure due to a physically damaged hard disk drive occurs in only 1% of all crashed computer situations. All other hard drive failures are due to software malfunctions specifically in loss of Windows operating system files. The only way to replace these files is to reload your Windows OS. Before doing so, you must use File Finder to start up your crashed computer and grant you access to all of the files presently stored on your crashed hard drive. File Finder will start your crashed computer without using your operating system files. It will then give you the options of copying from your hard drive any or all files it contains.
