How to Recover Lost Data from Crashed Hard Drive?

The worst thing about crashing your computer is losing all your data. Pictures of years precious memories, important documents in your business and current projects of weeks hard working---all are lost unless you have backed them up on a CD or memory stick. If that is it, it’s heartbreaking!

There are still hopes for retrieve your data.
Taking the computer to a repair service is one solution. But it is so expensive (usually costs $1000 or more), especially when recovering data.

However, you can retrieve the lost data from the crashed hard drive by yourself! Here is a step by step guide for you to do so:

The first thing you should do is to remove the crashed drive from the computer and install it as a secondary drive in another computer operating Windows Os. Make sure that it is detecting by the computer.

After you have set up the secondary drive, boot up Windows. Then you can copy and paste your files from the drive. However, there are may be two trouble. One, you can't access the drive (means you can’t open it); Two, your files are retrieved but you can't open it!



Don't panic! Just download a hard drive data recovery program, and with a few simple clicks, you will be able get your data back.

There are some costly windows tools available for this. Here I recommend you two cheap ones - Tenorshare Data Recovery and Recuva.
Recuva is a free one. It doesn't work in very extreme case though. It may turn out that your files are recovered but you can't open them. If that's the problem there are more serious software solutions for this, like Tenorshare Data Recovery. It costs a bit but much more effective.

Next, download Tenorshare Data Recovery. Be careful, do not install it to the drive that you are trying to recover. Doing so could actually overwrite files that you want to restore. Install it on the primary drive that you are booting from.

Last, when you use this tool, select "Partition Recovery". And within several clicks, you can retrieve all your data!

Besides, if the hard drive can't be recognized, you can try this trick.
Put it in a sealed plastic bag to avoid condensation. Then put the drive in a freezer and leave it overnight. When you are ready, pull the drive out of the freezer and hook it up quickly. Act quickly because you may only have around 20 minutes to do this. I have seen some reports however, of this fixing the problem all together.

If it fails, you will have to go to a recovery office (where offers recovery service) but let's hope not because it will cost you a lot of money and whether they can recover the data is not guaranteed.

The recovery tool mentioned above only supports for all almost Windows platforms such as Windows 98/2000/2003/NT, Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista. For Mac, you can google search to get one.

Some tips for you:
1. Find a friend who is good at computer to help you.
2. If your computer crashed because of a virus, copy the files to an external hard drive. Do not move directly to a new computer.
3. Hard drives are fragile. Be careful and do not drop it.
4. Run your antivirus software regularly.

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How To Recover Deleted Photos from Memory Card?

Taking many beautiful pictures in your vocation and looking forward to showing them to your family. However, your young daughter somehow monkey with the camera and deleted all the pictures. Press the "Format" button instead of deleted button and wipe your card clean which holds precious photos about the family reunion.

Such things often happen in our daily life. It is really depressing if we can't get back these precious images.

Fortunately, today's digital camera usually store your pictures separately on a flash memory card. The most commonly memory cards like SmartMedia, Memory Stick, SD, CF are often seen in digital camera. Owing to them, retrieve pictures from digital camera becomes possible for memory cards just like floppy disk or computer hard drive don't permanently erase a file once it has been deleted, instead they remove the file and list its space as available, re-usable space. Therefore, unless the space is taken by other pictures or files, it will still be there and you can get them back again.

Deleting or formatting won't make the data erased permanently.Those deleted data are still stored in the storage devices. it's just invisible or inaccessible.As long as those data are not overwritten by new data, it's highly possible to recover them. The most effective way is to rely on some memory card data recovery program.

Then how to recover deleted photos?
First, stop shot anymore and no deletion. Because once you continue to use your camera, or reformatted your memory card, pictures probably are overwritten with new ones. Get out of your memory card and connect it to your PC. Sometimes, a memory card reader is needed. Once the card appears as a drive letter in "my computer", you may download a small data recovery program I am using now.

You can get it from: http://www.any-data-recovery.com/

It can Recover Photos Lost Due to
Accidental deleting
» "Shift + Del" without backup
» "Delete All" when deleting not-so-good photos
» Delete pictures instead of saving by accidentally pressing wrong button
» Emptying Recycle Bin without backup
Formatting
» "Media/Drive is not formatted would you like to format now?"
Virus infection/attack
Unexpected power off
Other reasons
» Factory setting of device
» Losing photos during transferring photos from storage device to PC/laptop
» Pulling out card while the camera is on
» Turning off the camera during a write process

Simply install it on your PC under the wizard. Run it. You can see the fresh interface with four functions divided.

Within four steps, you can recover deleted photos from memory card with ease:
1. Select deleted recovery. It will take you a few minutes to scan your memory card;
2. You can see all deleted images listed on the task window, check the deleted photos you want to recover;
3. Select a path folder for the recovered pictures;
4. Click "OK" to finish recovery.


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