How to free up disk space? Hard drive recovery service

If there are no enough free space on your hard drive, your computer will have a very slow running speed. The boot time will get longer. More serious is that it’s difficult for you to run programs, open files. All the activities on computer will be greatly affected.Therefore, it’s necessary to free up your disk space.

How to free up disk space on hard drive?

Generally, free up disk space refers to free the system partition. You can check the current the free space on your hard drive partition to know if it has run out of memory. Even if there are still enough free space on your hard drive, it is also helpful to free up your disk space so that to improve your computer’s performance.

1. Use system built-in tool Disk Cleanup

Input Disk cleanup in the Run box. Press enter to open it. In the drop-down menu, choose partition C. After it has worked out the space you can free up, you will see the disk cleanup window. Then you can check or uncheck the box to determine which files you need to delete.

Use Disk cleanup to free drive C　

2. Use a disk space analysis tool

There many free disk space analysis program can help you to know how much your programs have occupied your space. You can find large sized files, you can delete them if they are not frequently used. This tool can also help you to find the hidden files and downloaded files. With this tool, you can easily find all the files you do not need.

3. Clean temporary files and duplicated files

You can clean the temporary files like browsing history, download files, cache, cookies. You may have many duplicate files on your computer. If you do not know their location, you can use the professional tools to find the duplicate files.

4. Uninstall unnecessary programs

Uninstall all the unnecessary programs do great help to free up your hard drive and speed up your computer. In Windows 7, you can click control panel>programs> programs and feature>Install programs. And you also can uninstall the programs in a security software.

5. Compress your files

You can compress your files to save the space. But you cannot compress system files or program files. You can compress the files you do not frequently use for it takes you longer time to open the compressed files.

6. Back up some of your data to online storage or external hard drive

If there are too many files on your computer and you can not delete them for they are still useful. In that case, you can back up them to the online backup account or an external hard drive. Today’s external hard drive have a larger storage space than the internal hard drive.

If you have data loss on computer, you should try to restore from the backups. If you have no backup, please try to use the Data recovery software as soon as possible.

How to recover files from hard drive?

How to recover deleted files from external hard drive with bad sectors?

Like internal hard drive, the external hard drive is also vulnerable to have bad sector. Bad sectors make some part of your drive become inaccessible, and the files on the bad sectors will be lost. If there are too many bad sectors on your external hard drive, it will causes serious drive problem so that you can not read and write on this drive. If you often use your external hard drive in an improper way, or use it for a long time, bad sectors will occurs. Bad sectors on drive not only affect the normal use, but also will affect the lifespan of your drive.

Signs of bad sectors

How to repair bad sectors and how to recover deleted files from hard drive　

Hard disk recovery from Bad tracks

Causes for bad sectors

What you can do in daily life to prevent your drive from bad sectors:

1. Do not continually use your external hard drive. Overuse of external hard drive will lead to overheat of drive so that to form more bad sectors.

2. Shut down your computer and remove the external drive correctly. Sudden power failure of computer leads to more bad sectors on external hard drive.

3. Run antivirus software to scan your computer and external hard drive regularly. Virus infection damage the hard drive sectors.

4. Maintenance your external drive. Physical damage of drive components, or aging of drive lead to bad sectors.

5. Keep the USB cable as short as possible.

6. Use a DC stabilized power supply for an external hard drive over 10 GB. The power supply provided by USB cable is not enough for an external hard drive over 10 GB.

How to fix bad sectors on external hard drive?

Before you try to fix the bad sectors, you can use a data recovery software to restore files from the external hard drive with bad sectors.

How to recover deleted files from external hard drive with software?

There are several ways for you to fix bad sectors.

1. Fix with the Windows built-in error-checking tool

Right-click your external hard drive, choose properties. In the properties window, click Tools tab.

Click the button of Check now. Check “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”, them click Start.

2. Fix with manufacture tools

The external hard drive manufacture has their own diagnostic software.

3. Fix with a third-party bad sectors repair tool

If the above ways have not solve your problem, you can use a professional bad sector repair software to fix it.

4. Fix by format

You can format your external hard drive to fix this problem. If you perform a quick format, the bad sectors will be marked and do not save data after that. If you perform a full format, the bad sectors could be repaired.

File recovery How to fix “Please insert a disk into Removable Disk”

Sometimes when you plug your U disk into the computer, the drive is visible and its icon is showed in system, but the system pops up that “Please insert a disk into Removable Drive F” when you click this U disk. So you cannot access to it. In order to fix this error, you should know the causes for this error first.

Why there is the error “Please insert a disk into Removable Disk”?

1. The computer’s controller cannot load the manufacture’s firmware.

2. The U disk has been corrupted

3. Drive letter conflicts

4. Disk management shows the drive letter with no media

How to fix this error of “Please insert a disk into Removable Disk”?

If it is the first time you encounter this error, you can try to insert this U disk again, or try to plug it in other computers. If your U disk has not been corrupted, you should use a data recovery software to recover your deleted files first.

There are several ways for you to fix this error.

1. Change the drive letter

How to change the drive letter of your U disk in Window

Open the Disk Management, right-click the drive letter of your U disk, choose change drive letter and path from the menu.

Choose other drive letter that has not been occupied.

Try to open this U disk again you will be able to open your U disk.

2. Recover your data with data recovery software

If changing drive letter does not solve your problem, you need to fix it. But before you try to fix it, you should restore the files on this U disk first to avoid data loss.

How to recover files from U disk?

Hdata recovery software can recover your files from different kinds of U disk issues. As long as your U disk can be read by computer, you can recover all of your data.

3. Use the manufacturer's repair utility to fix this error.

The manufacturers usually have repair utility on their products website. It can repair most of common issues.

4. Format this U disk

After you have recovered all your files, you can try to format your U disk so that to solve this problem. However sometimes you will found that you cannot format this U disk.

How to fix “Windows was unable to complete the format”?

How to format the U disk?

If your U disk shows 0 bytes or cannot access, you can try to format it. You can directly format it in My computer or in Disk Management.

How to fix the 0 Bytes error?

5. Update the firmware

If this error occurs, you can update the firmware to the latest version.

External drive recovery: How to fix “Windows was unable to complete the format”

You may have encountered such problem that when you try to format an U disk or external hard drive, the system prompts that Windows was unable to complete the format. In that case, how to fix this drive?

Once you have such problem, you cannot access to this drive before you format it. There are several ways for you to fix this drive and format it. But format will let you loss your data. If you do not want to lost your data, you should use data recovery software first before formatting.

How to restore data from external hard drive?

Why Windows was unable to complete the format?

If you cannot directly format your external hard drive or U disk, your device may have some problems.

1. Your external hard drive has a virus infection.

When have the format problems, you should use a antivirus software to scan this device first. If the file system of your external hard drive has been corrupted, your device cannot be formatted.

2. Bad sectors on external hard drive

If you usually do not safely remove your external hard drive from computer, or you have used it for a long time, the drive is easy to have bad sectors. In that case, you can use the windows built-in tool try to fix the bad sectors.

Right-click this drive, choose property and click tool tab in the properties window, click Check now in the Error-checking part.

3. External hard drive is in Read-only status

Turn off the read-only option if you cannot format the drive.

4. Physical damage on external hard drive

Sometimes it is the physical damage on hard drive that cause the drive cannot be formatted. Such as the chip and circuit board failure, you can ask the professional data recovery center to help you replace the part if the data on drive is really important for you. If not so important, you just need to replace a new drive.

Ways to fix the drive which cannot be formatted

1. Format this drive in Disk Management

How to use the Disk Management?

In the Disk Management window, find the drive letter of your external hard drive, right-click and choose Format option from the right-click menu.

In the Format window, choose Files system, and uncheck the option of Perform a quick format. Click OK to format the drive.

2. Format with Command prompt

Type cmd in the search box and open the cmd.exe window.Type “ diskpart” and press Enter.

Press “list disk “and press Enter.Type “select disk 1” and press Enter. If the disk 1 is your external had drive.

Type “clean” and press Enter.Type create partition primary and press Enter to create a new partition.

Type “active” and press Enter.Type “format fs=fat32” and press Enter.

After the format ends, type “exit” and press Enter to close the window.

3. Format with a professional format tool

If the above two method cannot format your drive, you can try to use a professional format tool to format your external hard drive.

Recover Hard drive Shows "Unknown Not Initialized" in Windows

Sometimes when you plug in your external hard drive, it does not show up in My Computer. And sometimes when you double-click a hard drive partition, the system prompts that Disk unknown not initialized. But if you open the Disk Management, they are here and showed as Unknown and Not Initialized. This is a common issues occurs on both internal hard drive and external hard drive. Why the hard drive is not initialized and how to fix it?

Why hard drive is uninitialized?

There are two cases for Disk is not initialized. One case is that you can see the disk capacity in the Disk Management, the other case is it does not show the disk capacity here.

Here are the causes for the disk is not initialized:

1. File system corruption

2. Bad sectors

3. Virus or malware infection

4. FAT corruption

5. Master Boot Record corruption

6. Computer system crash

How to fix the drive is not initialized?

Before you try to fix this uninitialized drive, you should recover the files on this drive first for initialized the drive will let you lost all your data.

1.External hard drive recovery from not initialized partition

First, you need to download and run the Hdata recovery software

Second, click the button of Hard drive lost or crash. Choose the partition which showed as not initialized.

Third, scan this partition and preview the results after scanning.

Fourth, choose another partition or device to save the files recovered from this uninitialized partition.

This video tutorials may be helpful to you

2. Initialize the hard drive

You can open the Disk Management, choose the unknown disk which showed as Not Initialized, choose Initialize from the right-click menu.

The uninitialized external hard disk does not shown up in Disk Management

If the disk is not initialized does not show in the disk management, you can try to fix this problem.

First, you should shut down your computer, and then disconnect the data cable and the power cable. Remove the CMOS battery and then insert it again. Turn off the computer and shut down again to connect the data and power cable. Then you can turn on your computer to know if the problem has been solved.

Second, if you cannot solve this problem by yourself, you’d better send it to a professional datarecovery center for repair. If there is a physical error and cannot be fixed, you should replace the drive.

How to retrieve data from internal SSD?

As SSD has a quick read and write speed than HDD, it is widely uses in almost all computers. And it has a good performance so that you will have less errors and data loss on SSD. However, despite of all these advantage of SSD, you still have the chance to have a data loss.

Why we lost data from SSD?

There are many reasons for data loss on SSD.  The data are deleted intentionally or unintentionally. Most data loss cases are due to unintentionally deletion, such as accident delete, empty the recycle bin, ,mistakenly format. And sometimes, you do not even know when you have lost your data. The occasional hardware failures, power failure , virus infection also will cause data loss.

Format the internal SSD

If the system prompts you to format the SSD, you should not format it right now. Please use a data recovery software to recover all your data on this partition, and after that you can format it to try to fix it.

Cannot format the internal SSD

Sometimes, the system prompts that the SSD need to be format before you can use it. But when you perform a format on this partition, you cannot complete format. What can we do in that case? First, you need to use a data recovery software to retrieve all the files on this hard drive. And then you can try to format it in the Disk Management, or you can use a third-party tool to format this drive.

Cannot access to the Intel SSD

If you click the partition and found that there is response, you should not worry so much. First, you can end all the unnecessary running programs. If this doesn’t work, you can reboot your computer. Reboot your computer can help you solve many computer issues. If all does not work, you can run an antivirus software to scan your drive, or run Disk check to check it. Hdata recovery software to scan and recover files from this inaccessible drive.

SSD drive Unknown Not Initialized

If the system prompts that the drive is not initialized when you try to open it, you should use a data recovery tool to recover all the file son this drive first, and then go to the Disk Management to initialize this drive.

What you should notice when using the internal SSD

We all know that the SSD has a restricted life: they have limited number of write and erase cycle.

Frequent defrag will reduce the lifespan of SSD. On SSD, Defrag doesn’t improve your computer’s performance, it’s no need to defrag the SSD.

How to defrag the hard drive?

SSD data recovery

How to recover deleted files from SSD?

If you cannot access to your SSD, or have accident deletion, you can always use a data recovery software to retrieve them. Whenever you need to format or reformat the drive, you should recover the files and back up the data first.

How to use free file recovery software to restore files?

How to speed up Windows boot times Disk recovery software

A slow computer is really upsetting. No matter a slow running speed or a long boot time. Once we have a slow computer ,we can try many methods to increase its performance. We always are impatient with a long boot time, especially when we need to work with this computer. If your computer has an extremely slow speed,it is remind you to clear your computer.

How to speed up the boot time of my computer?

First, you need to know the boot time of your computer. If you have installed a third-party security software, it will prompt you the boot time every time you boot into system. If you need more numbers of boot time, you can read in the Windows Event Viewer.

Input the Event Viewer in the search box and open it. Click Applications and Services Logs -- Microsoft -- Windows --Diagnostics Performance. In the General tab, you can see the boot duration. Click the Details tab, you can see what are the programs slow down the boot time.

1. Disable the unnecessary startup programs

Startup programs are the main cause for a slow boot time. If there are many startup programs, they will greatly slow down boot time. Therefore, you need to disable all the necessary startup programs and disable any programs have high Start-up impact (You can see in the Task Manager—Start-up tab). You should disable the programs you do not use every day. You can enable the hardware components like Keyboard. Other programs can be disabled.

You can use the third-party security software to disable the startup programs. This software lists all the startup program, show the rate of disable, the boot time of every program.

Disable in the System Configuration. Click the start menu, input msconfig in the search box and open it. In the System Configuration window, Click the Services tab to choose disable or enable the startup programs. You can see all the enabled startups in the Startup tab.

2. Uninstall the programs you don’t need

Even though these programs are not starting items, they also will affect the boot time. They add registry entries so that to slow down the computer boot time.

3. Use a cleanup software to clear the hard drive

You should clean your hard drive regularly to improve your computer’s performance. Sometimes, even if you have uninstalled the programs, their registry entries still on the hard drive. Therefore, it’s necessary to use a cleanup tool to scan your computer.

4. Update the Windows

New versions of Windows have a shorter boot time than older ones. You can update the Windows to improve the boot time.

Which disk recovery software should I choose?

If you have an accident data loss without any backups, you should use a data recovery software to retrieve them. You can choose a kind of Windows data recovery software. But notice to download from the official website. In order to increase the success rate of data recovery, you should choose a professional software, and you’d better choose a legitimate and genuine software.

Why Hdata recovery can recover your lost files from computer?

Ways to keep your computer safe How to recover deleted files?

As we rely more and more on the Internet, there are increasing network security problems. When connected to computer, our computers are vulnerable to have personal information leakage, data loss, even property losses. Then, how to keep our computer safe when connected to the Internet?

Here are some tips for you keep your computer safe on Internet

1. Run the antivirus software on your computer

You must have one kind of professional antivirus software to secure your computer. Antivirus software can not only scan the virus, but also the malware. Anytime, when you enter an unsafe website, download unsafe files, or install untrusted software, it will prompt you.

You should update the antivirus software and scan your hard drive regularly.

2. Enable the Window firewall

The Windows built-in firewall can effectively prevent the computer from virus infection.

How to enable the Firewall?

3. Update the browsers

You should update the browsers to secure your computer. The browsers can block the unsafe and suspicious sites.

4. Do not open any unsafe Emails and websites

Do not open the unknown Emails, do not click the links and attachments from the people you are not familiar. And do not brows unsafe websites.

5. Backup your important data regularly

You should back up your data regularly to avoid any unexpected data loss. You never know when you will have a data loss. As your computer is connected to the Internet, you are easy to have virus infection. Although you have installed the antivirus software, you still have little chance to have virus attack. And also, there are many other reasons for computer data loss: accident deletion, incorrect operation, data loss caused by other computer problems.

6. Update the Windows and do not use pirated software

7. Avoid install bundled software during installation

8. Use strong passwords and do not use the same password for all account.

How to recover deleted files?

In order to avoid unexpected data loss, you should follow all the above ways to keep your computer safe, and backup your files regularly. Once the data loss happen, you should stop using your computer, and then try to find a recovery software to recover your lost files.

Video tutorials about how to recover deleted files

How to keep your computer cool free file recovery tool

There are many parts in the computer which will generate lots of heat. If your computer is overheat, many computer problems will happen. Normally, the heat is moved out of the computer case by ventilation fans. If you computer has poor dissipation, the heat has not be moved out will damage your computer. Computer’s overheating is always a sign for virus infection and other computer issues. Therefore, keep your computer cool is especially important. CPU and graphics card are the parts generate lots of heat.

There are usually more than three fans in your computer: the fan for CPU, GPU, power case. And it also may have a fan for the whole computer case. All of them are used to dissipate heat to prevent overheating so that the computer can work well.

How to keep your computer cool?

1. Remove the accumulated dust on all parts of your computer.

The accumulated dust has greatly influenced the dissipation and performance of the computer. If you have a desktop, you should clean the dust regularly.

The chassis panel. The heat dissipation effect of computer chassis greatly depends on the chassis panel.

The you should clean the mainboard , graphics card and CPU, and clean all the fans.

When you remove the dust, you should pay attention to not let them enter into the card slot.

2. Remove the obstacles to the air flow of computer chassis.

You should not block the side of chassis air flow to let the cool air can enter.

And you should also do not open the computer case regularly. If you always open the case, the dust isa easier to enter the case so that the fans will slow down soon.

3. Remove your computer from the too hot or dirty area.

4. Replace the cooling fans if the old ones have bad performance

As the CPU and graphics card generate too much heat, you can replace a specific fan. If you use a laptop, you can use an USB fan.

5. Stop overlocking

If you overlock the computer, your computer will be overheating.

Learn more about how to keep your computer cool:

How to prevent your computer from overheating?

Windows data recovery : How to recover deleted files from hard drive?

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?

How to fix the common computer issues? Recover deleted files free

There are various computer issues we will encounter when work on computer. In most of cases, these are not serious problems, you can easily to fix these issues by yourself. Here are some simple way for you to fix the common problems.

1. The universal solution: Restart your computer

Restart your computer can help you solve most of simple computer issues. You’d better safely restart your computer when have problems. Click the start menu, and choose Restart button. If you cannot restart the computer properly, you can also power off and reboot it. Why reboot will solve so many problems? Reboot a computer wipes away the current state of the software.

2. Reinstall Windows

Some times, reinstall windows or uninstall windows update will help you to solve the issues caused by windows.

How to reinstall systems?

How to uninstall windows updates?

How to repair the operating system?

3. The computer cannot boot

If the computer has a sudden shut down and you cannot boot it again, it may have a problems in power supply. Check the plugs and test if there is adequate power supply.

4. The computer screen is blank

If you boot the computer but found a blank screen, you should first check the monitor and its cables connection. The monitor may not turn on or the cables are disconnected. Or the monitor has been damaged.

A low power supply will also cause this problem.

The overheated or a bad graphics card can cause a blank screen.

5. The computer screen is freeze

Once your computer screen is freeze in using, you should not switch off the power switch at the first time. You should wait for a moment with patience. Sometimes, it appears freeze because it  is processing a complex task, after that your computer will work properly. If that doesn’t work, you have to switch off the power switch.

6. Browser has been hijacked

There are some programs designed to hijack your browsers so that the browsers will not work. In that case, you should restore the browser settings.

How to recover deleted files free from hard drive?

If you want to have any fix on the computer which may cause data loss, you should back up your files first.If you have accidentally lost some of your files, you should try to avoid  data overwritten. No matter what are the causes for your data loss, you should stop using your computer and use a data recovery software at the first time.

Steps to recover deleted files from computer

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?