Hard Drive Mechanic

There are various levels of difficulty one encounters when trying to recover lost data. An example of a very simple data recovery task would be that of locating a recently deleted file on a USB flash drive. This is accomplished by downloading a general purpose data recovery tool onto your PC or Mac and directing that tool to scan through the connected flash drive. A further level of difficulty arises when we attempt to recover data from a crashed hard drive. In this case we are unable to download the data recovery tool onto our PC because the crashed hard drive is stopping our computer from loading Windows.

How then do resolve this more complicated problem? This problem has two potential solutions. One, we can remove the hard drive from our computer connect it with a cable to a working PC onto which the data recovery tool has been installed. Two, we can reload our Windows operating system restoring our computer to functional status and then download the data recovery tool onto that computer. Our final step will be to now direct the data recovery tool to locate any recently deleted by reformatting files and create a list of those eligible for recovery.