Imagine this scary moment. You log into your computer like you do every morning. But today when you go to open the files for the important project you have been working on you can’t find them. Keeping you cool you check the Recycling Bin; unfortunately they are not there. Next you use your computer’s search function to see if you accidentally moved the files to another location. Again, you have no luck. You now realize the files appear to no longer be on your harddrive.
Then finely a bit of good news; you check for signs of a hardware failure. Things like the sound of a clicking harddrive, or strange error messages like “CRC read IO Error. Do Not Proceed.” And, you do not find anything.
This is good news because if you data loss is not due to a hardware failure then you know there is a good chance that your files can be recovered. Even better, there are several good pieces of free software to help you “undelete” your lost files.
At this point, it is important that you stop using the system. This is because you want to reduce the likelihood of writing over the areas of your computer that may still contain you lost files. Even if you are not actively creating and saving files your computer still uses your system's hardrive as a swap disk for its memory. That alone can inadvertently write over what you are hoping to recover.
Now you need to find and download some data recovery software onto another system. Once this is there, save it either to a USB memory stick, or to a CDROM. You will run the recovery software directly from there. Once your lost files have been found you should play it safe and copy the files unto your USB memory stick or to another system. This is just in case the issue arises again.
PC Inspector is a free data recovery program you may want to consider. This program was developed by the Convar company. Conver has been doing data recovery for 15+ years.
With PC Inspector you can recover files of any size, folders, or programs you want. Often you will recover the original date and time stamp of documents at the time the files were lost. That information may be helpful in determining what actually caused the data loss.
Find out more about Data Recovery techniques by visiting http://harddrive-data-recovery.com a site dedicated to making the task of recovering your lost data easier.
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