How to Recover Hard Drive Data Effectively?

Did you accidently delete important files from hard drive or your hard drive is always bumping with crashes? If this is the case, don’t worry, I will tell you a few wonderful solutions to recover hard drive data immediately.

Note:

When files are deleted, Windows do not delete them truly until new files are saved to the same location on your hard drive. Therefore, you still have choices to recover deleted files, so you should never save, delete or change any data on the same hard drive in case that the deleted files were overwritten. Moreover, you should recover hard drive data as soon as possible, the earlier you recover them, the more likely you get them back.

How to recover hard drive data?

You can get deleted files back with different methods based on your situation.

1. Recover files in Recycle Bin

If the deleted data are still in the Recycle Bin, then you can easily recover them by clicking the restore option. But if the data are too big to be stored in the Recycle Bin or you just emptied the Recycle Bin, things will be a little tricky and you need to use the following two methods.

2. Manually recover data

If you are a PC expert, you can use the system backup to manually recover hard drive data. If not, I recommend you use the second method, as a minor mistake may cause deadly losses.
For Windows Vista system, click “Control Panel”-“Backup and Restore” -“Restore Files”.
For Windows 7 system, click “Start” –“Control Panel” –“System and Maintenance” - “Backup and Restore”-“Restore my files”.

3. Automatically recover data

If you are an inexperienced user, I suggest you use Data Recovery software which can safely recover hard drive data. As for how to choose the best software, I recommend you to opt for a simple and automatic one which can recover data from each & every source.

The software should come with the following recommended characteristics & features :

It can recover almost all popular file type including .doc, .txt, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .vsd, .rtf, .zip, .rar, .tmp, .mdf, .mid, .iso, etc.
Support almost all types of operating systems, including Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7…
Mass file recovery is supported.
File preview. Most of the file types can be previewed to estimate the possibility to recover.

You can use the three methods I mentioned above, but I highly recommend you to use good quality data recovery software to recover hard drive data safely and effectively.