How to secure hard drive data?

Today, data is very important for us, especially the personal data. Personal information reveal can cause serious problems. Your private data will be controlled by people who have ulterior motives. And other files like your cherished photos, your work files are also should be secured. To secure the data on hard drive, what can we do?

Ways to secure your data on hard drive?

The first step is to back up your data in time. This method is the most overlooked but most effective way to secure your data. If you keep in mind to back up your data regularly, the data loss will be greatly reduced. You can back up the data on the external hard drive, cloud drive,U disk and so on. Only when the data loss occurs will you realize how important is the backup to you.

Encrypt your personal data

If you have sensitive or personal data on the hard drive, you should back up them and at the same time to encrypt them. In windows, there is a built-in tool called Bitlocker which can encrypt the hard drive. If you do not want to encrypt the entire hard drive partition, you can use a third party software. If you want to encrypt the files without software, it may be a little trouble for you.

How to encrypt the files in Windows without third-party software?　

The professional encryption software can password protect your sensitive data so that others are unable to access to your data. If you delete the files encrypted ot format the drive, the encrypted files cannot be recovered.

Although encrypt files can help you reduce data loss, you still should back up your data regularly. There are so many data loss causes, you may be caught off guard to have accidental data loss.Once you have data loss, you should stop using this partition to store new data. If you have no backup, the data recovery software is your first choice to retrieve your data.

How to Recover Data from Hard Drive with HData Recovery

First, find and install Hdata recovery software on your computer, came to the blue interface of software. There are six different recovery mode for your choice. You can select according to your specific data loss situation. If you want to recover deleted files from hard drive, you can take the Universal recovery mode to have a deep scan or take Deleted your files accidentally.

Click to start scanning. The software will automatically scan the location you choose and display all the results.

Preview the results and check the files you need to recover.

Choose the recovery path. Pay attention not to store data on where you have data loss. So if you have data loss on partition E , you should not choose it as the recovery path.