Recover files from hard drive
Hard drives being the dynamic storage devices are extremely easy to use and handle. Data stored on a hard drive is not exactly safe, this is true indeed. Data on hard drives may be lost due to various causes like hard drive crash, virus, sabotage, accidental deletion, formatting/reformatting and many more. Unfortunately, there is no full proof remedy to prevent data loss.
If you have important information on your crashed hard drive that needs to be restored? Are you unsure of how to recover lost hard drive data? This article provides you with information you need to learn how to recover files from hard drive . Well, recovering your hard work will require figuring out the best data recovery tool. Disk Doctors Data Recovery Software family has easy to use applications that can recover data from a hard drive having logical failure.
Precautionary steps to be taken in case of a hard drive crash
- Stop working on the drive
- Do not run any repair utility for e.g. “chkdsk ”, as this further may cause permanent data loss
- Do not try and save or reinstall any thing on the crashed hard drive
- Remove the crashed hard drive from the machine and connect it to another healthy system as a secondary drive and run Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software
To recover data from crashed Windows hard drive follow these simple steps with Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software.
Step 1: Install Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software and run the application by double clicking the icon on the desktop or run it from the programs list from the Start menu. This will launch the application main window as shown in Figure a.
Figure a: Program Main Window
Step 2: Select ‘Recover your Data’ option from the ‘Wizard window’ and click on ‘Next’ button to continue (See Figure b).
Figure b: Select Appropriate Option
As you click the ‘Next’ button, a window will be displayed to select the disk from which you wish to recover your data (see Figure ‘c’).
Figure c: Select source disk
Step 3: Select a source drive and the processing mode to process the drive. The software provides two processing modes: Display default partitions and Search for lost partitions. By default the processing mode is set to ‘Display default partitions’. As you click ‘Next’ button, the application analyses the drive and lists all the found partitions in the partition table as shown in Figure ‘d’.
Figure d: Partition Table
Step 4: Select a partition for processing and click Finish button. The application processes the partition and displays the found files and folders in a tree structure as shown in Figure ‘e’.
Figure e: Found Files and Folders
Step 5: After scanning process completes a tree of found files and folders is created. You can preview the file before it could be recovered. To preview the file, right click on the file whose preview is to be seen and select Preview option. This will show the preview of the selected file as shown in Figure ‘f’
Figure f: Preview
Note: Other than image files all the other files would be displayed in ASCII form
Step 6: After you find the file you wish to recover, the only task left in recovery process is to recover it to a safe destination location.
If you want to recover whole tree structure formed, click root folder to mark whole data and click on ‘Save All’ option on the tool bar or button from the tools menu. As soon as you click on ‘Save all’ button, a window to select destination location is displayed as shown in Figure ‘g’.
Figure g: Save data
Step 7: Select a logical drive in your local disk where you wish to save the data. Specify the file type you wish to ignore (file filter) while saving process and Click OK. Make sure you do not save data to the same location from which you are recovering it.
You can now access the recovered data as it was never lost before.