subject: Lost Data Recovery From Hard Drive [print this page] Computer uses hard drive to store all the data that your create. In fact it is not the data alone that is stored in a hard drive, but even the software you use in your system is installed in the hard drive. Before you could use a new hard drive, you need to make the hard drive ready for installing software and this is done with through partitioning and formatting the drive. Partitioning enables you to separate the drive based on your requirements. You can either have one or multiple partitions in a hard disk. Formatting also prepares the disk for its first use. However you might need to reformat and or repartition the disk on a number of occasions such as
if you want to add another operating system to the disk
while you are upgrading the operating system
if your system is affected by virus
if the file system is corrupt
if the system is very slow
if you want to make the system ready for another user
Reformatting or repartition of the disk will make all your old data inaccessible. You will ensure that your data has a backup before doing either of this. However, in certain cases like file system corruption or software malfunction can make a drive inaccessible. Thus you will be left with no choice but to reformat the drive to make it functional again at the cost of your data. Though, the data is inaccessible, you can still recover data from hard drive using specialized data recovery software.
Steps to recover lost data from hard drive
1.Download a reliable data recovery software to another healthy hard drive
2.Connect the hard drive from which you want to recover data to this healthy hard drive as a slave
3.Run the hard drive data recovery software to recover lost data from hard drive.
Make sure that you store the recovered data to the healthy drive or to an external storage device. Though, recovering data from a hard drive using hard drive data recovery software is fairly easy if you select the right data recovery software. Using an inefficient data recovery software can lead to permanent loss of your valuable data. Some of the tips for selecting good recovery software for hard drive data recovery are
Make an informed choice about the product by reading reviews about the product by trusted sites such as PC World, or Tucows.
Evaluate the demo version of the software. This will give you an idea about the capability of the software in recovering lost data from hard drive.
Select a product that can recover different types of data including audio and video files if you have stored your favorite music and videos in the hard drive.
Make sure that the product supports data recovery from different data loss scenarios.
