Recovery data and how to fix your slow computer

If you have a slow computer, it will make you crazy as it runs quite slow and usually stop working with no response. If you have installed a kind of security software on your computer and run it to scan and clean your computer regularly, the performance of your computer will be better. What should you do when found your computer become slower and slower?

What are the possible reasons for the slow computer?

1. The malware or virus infection

If you found your computer runs very slow, it nearly hard for you to use it to open the files or browser, and you have not run too many running programs, it has great possible that there is a malicious program that cause this problem, or your computer had a virus attack. Some crazy virus will copy the files and background to take up the memory to slow the computer. If you found your computer is overheated, the computer may have been attacked by virus. You should disconnect your compute with Internet and then use the malware scanning software to remove them.

2. You are using the software which will eat up memory

Some programs will consume much memory when it is running. If they are not necessary for you, you can end these background process or uninstall them from your computer. Also the browsers like Google chrome will take up a lot RAM. Therefore, you should not open too many pages at the same time. You should always close the page you do not need to free memory. Also, you should not open too many files at the same time.

3. Hard drive space is nearly full

If you have end all the background process, uninstalled the unnecessary programs, delete all the unused files, the computer also do not have virus or malware, the computer still be very slow, you should check the hard drive memory. The drive C is the system drive where installed your system and all the programs. If the drive C is nearly full, it’s hard for your computer to run normally. You can right-click the drive C to check in the properties. In the General tab, you can find the used space and the free space of this drive. If there is less free space, you have to clean up the files in the drive C.

How to cleanup the C drive to free up the space?

You can open the Disk Cleanup to find out the unwanted files and then check the files you do not need to delete.

Reinstalling system may also can help you to solve this problem. But before you reinstall system you have to back up all the data. Also it take a long time to reinstall windows. Considering these factors, you do not need to regularly reinstall the system unless your computer has some strange issues which you cannot solve.

To improve the performance of your computer, you should clean up your computer regularly, and run the antivirus software to protect your computer from virus damage.

Recovery data from C drive with recovery tool

It’s quite common for us to delete files by accident and lost files for some unknown causes. No matter why you lost your data, the data recovery software is the best method for data retrieval.

How to recover corrupted files—File recovery software free

Files is easy to be corrupted in the process of transmitting ,writing. There are many reasons for files corruption, such as virus infection, mistaken operation, interruption of transmission interruption, physical damage, etc.

Generally, the file corruption cases can be divided into two main categories: Physical and logical.

Physical Damage

Physical damage refers more to the damage on the storage device itself. Such as damage on the surface of part of the device: dust, water damage, scratches, shock, extruding, drop and so on. These will damage parts or components of the device so that the device cannot read or write data normally. Even they may lead the device completely dead.

When you found that your hard drive or flash disk have serious physical damage, you’d better as the data recovery company to recover your lost files

Logical Damage

Logical damage usually refers to the software level. These damage mostly can repair by yourself easily. The most common software damage are caused by human mistaken operations, and virus infection.

Users improper operations, such as abruptly unplug the device from computer, and remove it when in data transmitting process. Disconnect the device in an improper way may cause data loss or damage on device. Accident format is also another human factor for data loss. Even if the system prompts you to format your device, you should not for that.

Virus infection is common for all computer users. If your device or computer has virus, some or all of your files will be missing or corrupted. Run a antivirus software to scan your computer and device, it can help you to fix the virus infected files. If you lost some files after using the antivirus software, you can use a data recovery software to recover them.

How to recover corrupted files with data recovery software?

Before you start to recover files from your device, you should try to avoid mistake operation. Do not write new files to this device and do not format the device.

Steps to recover deleted files with Hdata recovery software:

Free download and install Hdata recovery software. You should download from the official website and the copyrighted version.

Run Hdata recovery software on your computer and connect your device with computer.

Then click a proper recovery mode from the interface to scan and complete recover.

How to recover a hard drive –Files on formatted hard drive

What is format?

From the definition of computer format, format a hard drive means that it initialized the  partition by deleting all the files to prepare it used by operating system so that is is available for data storage. There are two kind of format:quick format and full format. If you perform a full format, your files will be erased from the partition and become unrecoverable. While if you perform a quick format, your files will not be erased, you can use a data recovery software to recover them. Sometimes, the system will prompt you to format the disk before you can use it. If you want to use this device, you may tend to choose format it. But once you format this disk, unfortunately, you will lost your files on the disk.

Low-level format and high-level format

Low-level format(full format) is a kind of physical format, it should be performed with caution. Before you perform a low-level format, you should make sure that you have select the right partition or storage device. Back up all your data on the partition which you plan to format. You’d better do not take this kind of format for it may have negative impact on the service of your hard drive and it will erase your data.

When you need to perform a low-level format?

If your hard drive is corrupted and the operating system cannot recover them, this will help you to fix the hard drive problems.

If your hard drive partition get virus or corrupted, you can adopt this way to get rid of the virus.

If you want to fix the bad sectors.

High-level format is a kind of logical format, it will remove data from the hard drive.

When you need to perform a low-level format?

If you use a new hard drive, you need to format it before use it.

If your hard drive got virus, formatting the hard drive is better than using a antivirus software to scan it.

If you want to change the files system of hard drive, you need to format the hard drive.

If the hard drive is corrupted or inaccessible.

No matter you adopt what kind of format, you should be careful. Back up your files on the hard drive before you format it. Even though the hard drive recovery software can recover files after the drive has formatted, but there is not always a full recovery for you.

Ways to format the hard drive　

There are many way for you to format the hard drive. You can format it with a third-party software, and format it in Windows tools like diskpart, Windows Explorer, Disk Management. If you want to format partition C, you need to format it from outside the Windows.

How to recover files from a formatted drive with data recovery software?

Hdata recovery software provides a recovery mode for the formatted hard drive: Formatted hard drive accidentally. If you accidentally format your hard drive and want to restore your files from the hard drive, you should take this recovery method to retrieve them immediately. But I’d like to remind you that no data recovery software can assure you that you can 100% get all your files back. Think twice and backup your data before format, and do not casually format your hard drive.

Free media recovery software Video recovery software

There are many media files store on your memory card, SD card, U disk, like digital videos, audios and pictures. Many reasons lead to media files lost on your storage devices. Device failures, accident deletion or incorrect operation, virus infection all can lead to data loss. If you have backups, you are very lucky. If you have no backups, you have to try some recovery method.

How to use free media recovery software to recover the lost files?

Data recovery software is a good choice in most of data loss situations. It can recover your files from most of logical failures.  In all, as long as your device still works well and your data has not been overwritten, you can use data recovery tool to recover your lost media files from your device. Hdata recovery is a free media recovery software, which can recover all kinds of files, digital image,videos, audios, musics from your device.

Free recover media files with Hdata recovery software

Immediately you found you have a data loss, you need to stop using your devices. Do not have any operations which will overwritten the deleted files like add new data to this device or reformat it.

There are six recovery modules on the software interface. Depends on your device and data loss causes, you need to choose the corresponding recovery module. If you want to restore media files from camera memory card, you need to click the button of “Deleted your files from Flash Disk”. This mode can help you to recover your files in any data loss situation except for dead memory card.

Free download the Hdata recovery software and run it on your computer.

Connect your camera memory card with computer. Please make sure that your computer can recognized it.

Click the button of Deleted your files from flash disk.

Start to scan the memory card and preview the files scanned.

Filter the files you do not need and check to recover the files you need.

Select a recovery path to store the recovered result. You should not save it on this memory card.

Other features of Hdata recovery software

Hdata recovery is a Windows data recovery software. It can recover files from computer recycle bin, hard drive, and many other removable storage devices. No matter you format your device, or you have lost or deleted partition, you can use it to recover the lost files.It provides safe and deep scan technology, you can recover your files as much as possible. With a simple interface and easy operations, any one can easily recover their files with the software.

How to create a a file for Windows files and Windows data recovery

There are many ways for you to encrypt your files on Windows. You can use BitLock to encrypt the entire hard drive partition. You can encrypt your Word and Excel files with the office built-in feature of encryption. You can use other third-party tools to encrypt your files. However, if you do not want to use the third-party software, you can try the following way.

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

First, you need to create a folder for the files you need to protect.

Second, right-click to open your created file folder. Right-click inside the folder,and Select new from the right-click menu and click Text Document from the context menu. Press Enter.

In the open Text document, you need to paste the below code into it.

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to Unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==Your-Password-Here goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

Third, locate Your-password-Here in these long code, replace it with your password.

Fourth, click File>Save As in the document. In the Save As Window, select All files from the drop-down menu of Save as type.

Fifth, change the file name to FolderLocker.bat, Click Save

Sixth, Double-click the Folderlocker and then you will see a file folder named Locker.

Seventh, you can move all the files you need to lock to this Locker folder.

Then you can open the Windows Batch File—FolderLocker, in the Folder Locker Window, type Y and press Enter. You have successfully encrypt this file folder now.

How to De-encrypt the locked file folder?

First, double-click to open the FolderLocker Batch file, enter the password you have set, then Press Enter. Your file folder now are unlocked.

Windows data recovery tool

Encrypt is a good way to protect your important files to be accessed by others. And there are still many data loss cases on computer.If you do not put your files in right place, they are easy to be deleted by accident. Once you found the files you need disappear from their location, you should check them in the recycle bin first, if you have no backup, try to use the data recovery software at the first time.

Free file recovery tool Common memory card problems and solutions

Memory card has been a necessary part for our mobile phone and camera. It extends the limited memory space and easy to be removed. It has a very small size but large capacity. But its advantages can be a double-edged sword, there are many memory card problems happen while in use.

1. The memory card runs very slow

If you found that your mobile phone or camera has a slower speed in reading and transferring data than the usual speed, there is some wrong with your memory card. You should back up all your files on this memory card and then format this memory card to fix it.

2. The memory card is corrupted

There are many reasons for a corrupted memory card. Heat, squeezing or water damage are the most common. You should maintenance your memory card carefully in your daily life. If there is a water damage, you should do not use hair dryer to dry out it for overheating will damage it.

3. Memory card cannot be recognized

This is the most common problem for all USB storage device. If your memory card cannot be recognized, you should try to insert it in different devices. And plug it into different USB ports to rule out the USB cable or USB port problems.

More reasons for unrecognized USB device

How to recover data when USB device cannot be recognized?　　

Unrecognized external hard drive data recovery data recovery tools　

4. Error message

If the memory card does not properly read, it will display error message. You just need to turn off the camera or mobile phone and then remove the memory card. Correctly insert the card and then boot the device, you may found that the problem has been solved.

5. Cannot read or write on the memory card

If you found that you cannot read or write any files on the memory card, your memory card may in write-protection or locked. Check the lock switch on the left side of the memory card to reset it to the unlocked position. Then you need to check the files attributes, storage space and try to fix the memory card.

There are more causes for a USB device write protection issues.

How to fix the write-protection errors of memory card?

Free file recovery tool to recover lost files from memory card

After you have fixed the write protected memory card, you need to use a data recovery tool to get back the lost files. As long as you have not written too many data on the memory card, you can full recover your files. In order to get a full recovery, you need to take recovery method before the data overwritten happens.

How can data recovery software recover the lost files from memory card?

How to password protect office documents and recover deleted Excel file

Not all people know that the Microsoft office has the feature of password protection. With this feature, you can encrypt the your Word, Excel and PPT files with password, preventing the unwanted access, modify of your documents. How to encrypt and decrypt the office documents?

As we already know that the Windows has a built-in encryption tool called BitLocker. But BitLocker is a full-disk encryption tool. You can use it to encrypt one of or all the hard drive partitions, but it cannot encrypt a single file. Therefore, if you only need to encrypt your office documents, you do not need to encrypt the entire hard drive partition. You just need to encrypt the files in office.　

How to set a password for the office document?

1.In Windows 7, open this word document or Excel sheet, click the office button on the top left corner.

Click Prepare from the menu, you will see an option of Encrypt Document on the right side.

Click the Encrypt Document and open it, input password in the box and then click OK. In case you will forget the password, you’d better keep the password in a safe place.

Confirm password and click OK.

Save this file.

How to remove the password of the office documents?

Click to open the document, enter the password.

Click the office button> prepare>Encrypt Document

In the password dialog, delete the encrypted password.

Click OK and save this file.

2. Use Windows built-in tools or a third-party software to compress and encrypt

Please download a kind of file compression utility from the website. There are so many free file compression utility on the Internet. Take the Winrar for example.

First, you need to download and install the Winrar on your computer.

Second, right-click the file or file folder to choose WinRAR from the menu, and then select Add to archive…

Third, in the Window of Archive name and parameters, you will see Set password in the General tab.

Fourth, click the Set password button and input your password. Click OK.

Fifth, you have set the password for this compressed file. You can try to open it, but you can not open any file in this compressed file, it requires you to input the password.

If you want to uncompresse the file, you can right-click the compressed file and select Extract Here.

Here are some ways for you to secure your office documents. However, if you lost your Word or Excel documents for accident deletion or virus infection, you need a data recovery software to restore them. If you excel files or Word files are corrupted, you can recover by these ways:

How to recover corrupted Excel file?　

How to recover corrupted Word file?

How to recover deleted excel file?

Hdata recovery software can retrieve all kinds of files from all your hard drive partitions. And no matter what are the reasons for your data loss, as long as the files are still on the hard drive, you are sure to get them back.

How to Encrypt files on computer? How to find deleted files?

As we are more and more rely on computer and other storage devices, we have to store all kinds of data on these devices. There are some files are some confidential files for us, and other private files we do not want to be accessed by others. Then encryption is a good choice to secure these files. You can encrypt your hard drive partitions with BitLocker.

BitLocker is a disk encryption feature in Windows Vista ans its later versions. It is designed to encrypt your files so that they are unreadable by others. It is a hidden feature in Windows. You can find this feature in several ways.

How to enable the BitLocker for a drive partition or external hard drive?

First, you can input encryption or BitLocker in the Run box to find it.

Second, you can find it by Control Panel> System and Security> BitLocker Drive Encryption.

1. In the Bitlocker Drive Encryption page, you should find the drive you need to encrypt. Click to turn on BitLocker to enable the encryption.
2. Then you need to use a password to unlock the drive. You are required to enter the password for twice.
3. Then you are required to back up your recovery key. You can choose to save to your Microsoft account, print the recovery key or save it to a file. This is to let you can use your recovery key to access your drive in case you forgot the password.
4. Next, you need to choose the space you need to encrypt. You can choose to only encrypt the uses space or encrypt the entire drive.
5. Choose the encryption mode. There are two encryption mode for your choice. The new encryption mode in Windows may be not compatible with older versions of Windows. If your external drive will be only used on the latest Windows 10, you need to choose the New encryption. Or you need to choose the compatible mode.
6. Now the encryption has start. You will see the completed percentage.
7. After the encryption ends, you are required to enter the password to unlock this drive. Or you can click the button of Enter recovery key if you forgot the password.
8. Check your hard drive in My Computer, you will see this partition has a lock symbol.

After the external drive has been encrypted successfully, you are required to enter the password to unlock it every time you connect the drive to computer.

You can also manage the encrypted drive in the BitLocker Window. You can change the password, turn off it, backup your recovery key, remove password.

Encrypt the internal and external hard drive is indeed a good way to avoid reveal of sensitive data, and reduce the chance of accident data loss. Data loss on computer are inevitable, once data loss occurs, what should we do to find deleted files?

How to find deleted files with Hdata recovery software?

5 Best disk recover software to recover files

There are so many possibilities for a data loss on hard drive. We usually loss data for press Shift+del, or other accidental deletion. And there are also so many unexpected data loss situations. Such as virus infection, hard drive logical or physical failure. Even though we have backed up our data regularly, we still have data loss before we have time to back up them. Once we have data loss, data recovery software is the first choice and it is the most simple way.  As there are so many data recovery software on the Internet, which kind of software should we choose?

How to choose a data recovery software?

Here listed the best data recovery software on Market

1. Hdata recovery software

Hdata recovery is a powerful recovery tool for recovering data from Windows. It supports to all kinds of file type, and can recover from different devices, such as Windows recycle bin, each hard drive partitions and USB devices.The most remarkable feature is that it provides free scan and preview and filter function so that to save your time.

2. Pandora recovery

Pandora recovery software can scan the files from the formatted hard drive. After scanning, you can preview the colored result and the recovery percentage. It can help you to retrieve most of your data back.

3. Puran file recovery

It have three main recover modes. Default quick scan reads the files from recycle bin. Deep scan check all available free space. Full scan check all the space on the hard drive.

4. Stellar Data recovery

Stellar data recovery not only can recover data from hard drive, but also can from CD-DVD, MS Outlook. Before recovery, you can compress the to save space. It also provides a image option so that you can back up your data on hard drive to avoid data loss.

5. Disk Drill

Disk drill is a really powerful tool. It looks good and complicated, but very easy to use. If you scan a partition, it lists the files system, size, free space. And it also enable you to filter the files you do not need.

These are some better data recovery software. They all have their own distinctive features. You can choose according to your needs. But all the data recovery software is only a remedy tool method after data loss. If you do not want to lose your data, you should back up your data regularly, and be careful while using your device.

How to recover files from a damaged hard drive? Repair the water damage

Your hard drive or external hard drive may occasionally have a water damage, and what should you do to repair the hard drive water damage?

If you do not want to lose your data on this external hard drive or damage the drive, you should repair it as soon as possible. The sooner you take measures, the less damage will on the hard drive. You should take measures as soon as possible to protect the water damage.

How to repair the water damage?

First, you need to power down the hard drive and plug it out at the first time it get wet. Disconnect the hard drive after a water damage is an effective way to prevent it from further damage.

If your hard drive gets a water damage, you are prohibited to use a hair dryer to dry out the hard drive. If you use a hair dryer, the heat will cause more damage on the hard drive. The correct way is to let the hard drive dry out on its own.

And you should not open the protective case of the hard drive. The protective case of hard drive is a necessary cover to prevent the hard drive from dust damage.

Second, if the hard drive were wet by dirty water, you should wash it with fresh water. And then you can let the hard drive dry out on its own.

Third, once your hard drive has dried out, you can plug it in to your computer to know if it can be recognized by computer and if you can access to your files on this drive. And if you have important data on the hard drive, you’d better take it to the data recovery specialist for a repair.

If you can access all the files on your hard drive, you should back up them first. Because, as your hard drive has a water damage, you cannot know when it will fail.

If the hard drive has no power and cannot be recognized by computer, you should ask the professional data recovery specialist to help you. They will try to repair it and help you to retrieve your lost files.

Try to repair by yourself is a risky thing. The improper operation will cause more damage on the hard drive. To avoid such kind of hard drive damage, you should be careful enough to avoid such kind of damage. Back up your files regularly is the best way to prevent unexpected data loss.

How to retrieve files from hard drive?

If you have accidentally deleted your files or format your hard drive partition, you should use the data recovery software as soon as possible to reduce the data loss.

How to fix a computer freeze up? How to recover deleted files Windows?

It is very common that the computer screen stops to responding when in using. This is called computer freeze up. How to fix this problem?

1. Wait for a moment

Sometimes, the computer freeze up for it is processing some complex task, it is just the slow or busy to carry out tasks. You should wait for a moment to see if the computer can response or not after that.

2. Try to press Ctrl+Alt+Del

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to open the task manger. In the windows task manager window, you will see the task status, if the applications is frozen, you will see the status is Not responding. Choose the not responding task and click the End task button. Then choose Close the program in the confirmation dialog, then click End now. If every thing goes well, your computer will not freeze up now.

3. Reboot your computer

If your computer still has not response when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del combination key, you have press the power button to reboot your computer.

If you found that it is still freeze when you open this program, you the need to uninstall this program.

Uninstall the programs you do not need. Sometimes, the computer freeze for it is run out of the hard drive space. So you need to uninstall some programs to free up the hard drive. You can free up the hard drive with Disk Cleanup.

How to free up the hard drive partitions?

Free up Drive C in Disk cleanup

Ways to free up hard drive partitions

4. Update your antivirus software

The virus may also cause the computer screen freeze. You should use the antivirus software regularly to scan the hard drive.

Possible data loss when fixing the computer freeze up

Reboot the computer with a screen freeze may let you have some data loss. If your documents were opened when the computer freeze happen, you will lost some of them. Some documents like word and excel have the auto-save feature so that you can recover the files from the recent version. While other files do not have auto-save feature, you will lost them after you reboot the computer.

How to recover lost word files?　

How to recover lost excel files?　

What are the causes for computer freeze up?

1. Your computer has run out of the space of hard drive

2. There are too much running programs

3. Your computer has a virus infection

4. Windows registry errors

How to recover recently deleted files?

Free recovery software The simple and most common computer problems

There are many computer problems when we using the computer. Some problems are common and easy for us to fix. When the computer has small problems, like computer crash, blue screen or low running speed, we tend to try to repair them by ourselves. What are the most common problems we have and how to fix them?

1. Blue screen

Blue screen is also called as Stop error. Generally. Blue screen happen when there are serious problems in your computer. Then you need to reboot your computer. If your computer has a frequent blue screen, you should pay more attention and try to fix it. There are so many reasons for a a blue screen problem, you should check them one by one and then find the solutions.

What are the causes for blue screen issues and how to fix?

The causes for blue screen can be divided into hardware issues and software issues.

The hardware and software issues

Causes and how to fix　

2. Page not found or 404

When you browsing the Internet, and open a page, there are no content but reads error 404 or Page not found. It tells you that the page has been removed or you have typed the wrong link.

If there is a 404 error, you can try to open this page again, and press the F 5 to refresh. Then check the link is correct or not.

Sometimes, you may need to change the DNS servers if you also cannot access other pages.

3. Slow network speed

If you have a slow network speed, you should check the network condition, and then use a system optimization software to optimized the network. Some times, it is the other running programs that slow down the network speed.

4. Slow computer running speed

This is one of the most common problems all of us frequently encountered. There are many reasons for a slow computer, too much icons or boot procedure, or running program on computer, or your computer has a virus infection so that to consume the memory.

What are the causes for a slow computer?

5. Virus infection

There are also many reasons for the virus infection, email, malware, unsafe website, malicious link, download files and so on. The results of virus infection are serious, it will slow down the running speed of your computer, and you will have a serious data loss.

How to restore deleted files after virus infection?

6. Data loss on computer

Data loss are very common computer issues and there are various data loss situations. You may lost data due to virus infection, accident delete, format by mistake, hardware issues and so on. The best way to avoid data loss on computer is to frequently back up your important data. If the data loss has happen, you should use a data recovery software to recover the lost files before the data overwritten occurs.

How to recover deleted files on pc?