Recovering data from a crashed hard drive

Computer crash is not uncommon for all users. We usually have computer crash while in use. Most of time, we can reboot the computer to solve this problem. But in some cases, the computer get corrupted after crash, so we cannot enter the computer and access to our files. The frequent computer crash usually indicates serious computer problems.

What are the signs for computer crash?

If your computer needs along time to boot up, and runs very slow when open files or applications, and frequent have blue screen, your computer is easy to have crash.

Not all computer crashes have signs. Some crashes due to virus infection, malware or improper operations on computer.

There are two main causes for computer crash: software and hardware.

And computer crash can be divided into four types.

How to recover data from the crashed computer?

If your computer has corrupted after crash, you need to remove the hard drive from the computer and then use a data recovery software to retrieve them.

Before you start to recovery, you need to power down the computer and then remove the hard drive from the computer case.

Connect the hard drive taken from the crashed computer with a healthy computer as an external hard drive.

Download and run Hdatarecovery software on the healthy computer.

Select the recovery module of Hard drive partition lost or crash, click Next.

Select the correct partition which you have data loss click Next to scan.

Wait for a moment. The scanning time depends on the size of files you need to scan.

Preview the scanning result and check the files you need to recover, click Next.

Choose a recovery path to save the files. You should not save the recovered results on the crashed hard drive.

Check the recovered results and back up them.

Suggestions: you should always pay attention to the maintenance skill of your hard drive and computer. Learn some basic knowledge of common computer failures is useful.　

If you have serious computer problems and you cannot repair by yourself, you’d better ask the data recovery company to help you. Do not try any operations which can cause more serious data loss before you know it. Frequent computer crash indicate serious problems in computer. You should find out the causes for your computer crash. When abnormal occurs, you should back up your important files in time.