The old way to restore lost data was to remove your hard drive from your computer and using cables piggyback that drive onto a working PC. This would usually allow you to access files locked away in a crashed or frozen hard disk. If on that drive you were trying to recover deleted files you would need to download onto the working technician computer the specialized program designed to recognize deleted file allocation space and reattach to that space the original name. Often upon disassembling both computers one would discover that the connections between the available computer and the offending hard drive were completely incompatible. This left as a solution sending the hardware away to a service laboratory and paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars to rescue lost information.
After testing a simple (but still too unstable) Linux program to open crashed drives it occurred to us at FileFinder that one could mount a quality recovery tool onto a miniature Windows operating system and from that system control all manner of tasks to restore lost data. This was the basis for creation and development of FileFinder. We now use our software by loading a special recovery disc onto any Windows based PC. Once that disc loads our program anyone can easily and quickly use FileFinder to search through hard disks, camera memory cards, and any other type of digital file storage device.
