If your computer will not start up beyond the Windows welcome screen or if you are presented with a blue Windows error screen upon attempting to start your computer, your problem is probably due to a crashed hard drive. This does not mean that your computer’s hard drive has physically broken. Very rarely does the hard drive burn out. In 99% of all cases hard drive failure is due to the loss of important files that are part of the Windows operating system and are used to access all of the files that have been stored on your computer. The process required to replace these missing operating files is extremely simple. All you need to do is reload your version of the Windows operating system. On PCs using Windows XP this is accomplished by installing Windows using the operating system disks which came with your computer. On computers using Windows Vista or the new Windows Seven the original Windows operating system files are safely stored in a special partition on your computer’s hard drive. There is a function known as system recovery that will automatically reload your Windows operating system for you on these computers.
Using the safe means of retrieving files on a crashed drive
However before you can do this you must find a way to recover crashed hard drive files. If you reload Windows before accessing your drive and copy out the files all of your saved files will be erased. File recovery of a reformatted drive using File Finder is very possible but far more difficult than recovery of your files from a crashed hard drive prior to reformatting. Remember, File Finder will open your crashed hard drive even if Windows will not start on your computer, and if you accidentally reload Windows before recovering your files, the File Finder program will still be able to locate and recover your files after reformatting.
Taking steps to protect your files
The best course of action when dealing with any situation that applies to file recovery is to immediately stop using the affected computer. This includes not downloading on to that computer any data recovery software. Very few file recovery companies mention this, but when you purchase and download a file recovery program onto the computer from which you have hopes of recovering deleted files, you run a very high risk of overwriting and destroying the very files you need to recover.
This is why we designed File Finder to load onto your computer by means of the CD/DVD drive. After downloading File Finder onto any friends or spare computer and using that computer to burn the File Finder program onto a disc, you can safely use that disc to start up your computer and load the File Finder recovery program. This is the only way to safely recover crashed hard drive files. Because File Finder is built on a unique miniature Windows operating system and uses that system to run your computer there is never any risk of overwriting files. In fact File Finder does not use your hard drive at all. File Finder loads directly to your computer’s live memory (RAM). From there, File Finder will open your hard drive and search through it to find 95% of all deleted and 100% of all existing files.
