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Hard Drive Recovery

When your hard drive has suffered a major melt down listed below are a few tips to help you achieve a hard drive recovery.

    1. If you think you have lost data do not save anything more onto the affected hard drive. You may be rewriting over information that you could retrieve.

    2. If your hard drive is fried and you can’t boot your operating system normally, transfer the drive to another computer. By moving the critical information to another computer may be able to fully access your hard disk through that system. Recover data by just using windows explorer through file structures.

    3. If you can physically transfer your hard disc do not reinstall your operating system. Use hard drive recovery instead, this software will not erase your information. Recovery software can run anywhere from $0 a download to $300.00. Try, while you are panicking, to do a little research for the best type of software for your system.

    4. Hard drive recovery software will only work if you have an additional drive to save the recovered data. If you do not than it is better to either install a new hard drive on the current system with a new operating system or find another computer to transfer the hard drive to.

    5. When all else fails and you need to mail your hard drive to a hard drive recovery specialist remember to wrap your hard drive in anti static material ( a freezer bag will work) and send it in a shipping box that is twice it’s size. Heavy foam padding and other anti vibration materials are good as packing materials, but do not use peanuts, these might create static. If your hard drive is malfuncting because it is wet do not dry it. They might have a better chance of performing the hard drive recovery before it is dried.

After you have tried one of these hard drive recovery options and have brought your machine back to life, set a reminder to back up your hard drive weekly. Unfortunately, there is no permanent cure to forever stop hard drive malfunctions, viruses and operator error; but backing up may take some of the heart ache out of hard drive recovery. -123Reference.com

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