Beginners guide for hard drive recovery

Have you ever lost some files from your hard drive? Did you delete some files by mistake and wanted to recover them back? All of the computer users went through this at least once in a life time. This critical situation could be solved through technician and computer savvy through some programs and hard drive recovery experts. But, what about the ordinary users? Should you surrender to what happened and forget about the lost files?

The answer is definitely no. first you should look for the deleted file in your recycle bin because if you find it there then, all you need to do is to restore it back in a single click and every thing will be settled. If you could not find these files in the recycle bin, do not panic. There is still a chance to get these files back.

You had to stop using the hard drive because when you delete a file from the hard drive it is not physically removed but only it is removed from the directory so it would not appear again except by using a hard drive recovery program.

If you tend to write on the hard drive again before using the hard drive recovery program then the new info may be written over the old info marked as deleted. In this case retrieving these old files will be very hard and nearly impossible.

So after you stop using the hard drive and preparing the suitable hard drive recovery software, you have to prepare another location to store the retrieved files on it as you can not write anything on the hard drive to avoid loosing the data.

You could store the retrieved data on another hard drive in the same computer, an external hard drive, memory stick or a CD. When you choose to write these files to a CD, be aware to check that your hard drive recovery program writes directly on the CD without copying the files first to a temporary file on the hard drive. Writing the files to a temporary file is the same as saving new files to the hard drive; both of them should be avoided.

After you restore the files to the alternative hard drive, check them to make sure that they are restored in a proper way. If you find a file restored in a wrong way then try to use the hard drive recovery program to restore it again.

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