How To Recover Your Lost Data From A Hard Disk

Nothing today is possible without computer and related systems

. Be it for personal or business use, data is important to every one of us. One of your worst nightmares can be a hard drive/disk crash resulting you in losing data stored on it. It may happen that you or someone else deletes an important file knowingly or unknowingly. Whatever is the case, you should always be prepared and know about that how you can recover your lost data from a hard disk. This is how you can do that:

1. If there is some accidental deletion of a file that you wish to have back again then you can look into the recycle bin or the trash folder. In case you find the file there then you may simply restore it from there. For this you can use a file-recovery system that scans the hard disk for recoverable data.

2. Now if your hard disk has actually crashed then you need to be a little more cautious and have patience. Doing something foolish might even take away the last chance of recovering your lost data. Just stay calm and hopeful as there are many other solutions in this case as well.

3. Take a look at all the symptoms of hard drive crash:

A clicking sound is heard on your hard drive. This indicates towards a corrupted ROM. This symptom can also arise as a result of electrical problem.

When you observe a blue-screen as you boot-up your computer then its operating system might have gone damaged or corrupted.

A virus/malware attack can also leave your hard disk in a bad shape.

Receiving of error messages while you are working with some operation. This will cause hang up of your processing.

4. Now here is what you can do:

In case you hear any clicking sound on your hard drive then go for professional help.

Remember all what happened with your hard drive and once you have the technician at your end do tell him/her about everything you know. This is helpful in troubleshoot.

You can help yourself by using data recovery software. These are available for free or at some price so that you can do everything on your own. But do this only when you have some or little knowledge of working with software. Don"t take it as a hit and trial method as that way you can lose access to all your data.

The users of Windows and Mac should have the know-how of these recovering options.

5. A good piece of advice here for all PC users is that they should only took up the task of recovering files from the hard disk when they have some prior experience of doing this. If not then asking help from a friend who knows it better than you is a good method. But even better than latter is to go for expert or professional help that will help you recover and secure all your data once again.

by: Jim Stewart

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