Often people write to us and ask if FileFinder will allow them to retrieve files that are locked away in a crashed computer. Using our program 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 disk has suffered a physical or logic crash. If your computer has fallen victim to physical damage, recovery software such as ours will not be able to help you. However you should note that only 1% of all internal disk crash problems are caused by physical damage. Also physical damage to a hard disk 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 hardware 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 PC has merely had a logic crash.
A logic crash occurs when Windows operating system information needed to open and save programs on your computer’s hard drive has become damaged. This can happen in a number of ways. Simple start up and shutdown often results in loss of this data. We restore this data by reinstalling our Windows operating system. But first we must recover any important items that we have stored on our computer hard disk. Often the files we want to recover are recently deleted and are quickly recovered with a simple fast scan. If the drive has crashed and your computer will not start, our software will still be able to rescue the information. This is done by loading the special FileFinder recovery disc. Once installed FileFinder will allow copy access to your internal 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 FileFinder program to find those and restore them to their original condition.
