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