Often people write to us and ask us if File Finder will allow them to retrieve files that are locked away in a crashed computer hard drive. Using File Finder for this purpose is a snap. If you are one of those who would like to know how to recover data from hard drive storage, read on, as this article was written expressly for you. Begin by ascertaining whether or not your computer’s hard drive has suffered a physical or logic crash. If your computer has fallen victim to physical damage, recovery software such as File Finder will not be able to help you. However you should note that only 1% of all hard drive crash problems are caused by physical damage. Also physical damage to a hard drive occurs due to dropping your desktop or laptop computer, which you should be aware of this happening or not. Symptoms of physical damage to your computer’s hard drive are smoke coming out of the unit or a constant clicking noise coming from the area of the hard drive. For all intents and purposes, you are safe to assume that your computer hard drive has merely had a logic crash.
A logic crash occurs when Windows operating system files needed to open and save programs on your computer’s hard drive have become damaged. This can happen in a number of ways. Simple start up and shutdown often results in loss of this data. We recover this data by reinstalling our Windows operating system. But first we must recover any important files that we have stored on our computer hard drive. Often the files we want to recover are recently deleted and are quickly recovered with a simple fast File Finder scan. If the drive has crashed and our computer will not start, File Finder will still be able to rescue our files. We do this by loading the special File Finder recovery disk. Once installed File Finder will allow copy access to your internal hard drive. You can copy one file or all of your files. If any files on that drive were also recently deleted you can direct the File Finder program to find those and restore them to their original condition.
