Hard drive recovery freeware How to fix bad sectors?

Generally when we have a suffer power loss and reboot the computer, you may found the Windows automatically check the disk on your hard drive, and sometimes, it will tell you that there are bad sectors on the drive. Then you may ask that what are bad sectors and how to repair them?

Bad sectors on hard drive

Bad sectors are the sectors which cannot be readable or written. The physical damages are the recording medium damage or read errors such as head damage, natural worn out or manufacturing error, dust on the hard drive. The logical damages like sudden power loss, virus infection or malware. Generally, over time, the bad sectors on the hard drive will lead to many problems. Such as magnetic wear, head crash, grinding sound, blue screen, boot issues and many other problems.

How to fix bad sectors in Windows?

To fix the bad sectors, you can use the windows tool, manufacturer’s tool or the third-party programs. But before you try to fix the bad sectors, you have to back up all your data on the drive as to repair the bad sectors is possible to result in the corruption of file system. So you may lost data after fixing the bad sectors. If you already have data loss on the hard drive, you should use the data recovery software to retrieve the lost data before that. All windows system have their built-in tool to check and fix the disk.

Windows

In most of cases, the windows will automatically scan the disk for bad sectors if you reboot after improper shutdown. In windows, you can check the disk by right-click the properties of the drive. Or use the command prompt to run chkdsk to find the bad sectors. Depends on the size of your hard drive, it will take a long time to scan the hard drive.

How to recover files from the hard drive?

Before you try to fix the bad sectors, you should take the data recovery tool to retrieve the data.

Steps to recover files from hard drive

Install and run hadata recovery software on your computer. On the software interface, you are required to choose a recovery button from the six modes according to the problem you encounter. Moving your mouse on the button you can know more details about this recovery mode.

If you lost files in recycle bin, you can click the button of Empties recycle bin accidentally to recover the data easily, so that you do not need to scan the entire partition and save your time. If you lost files due to format or partition lost or crash, there are two particular recovery mode for you. Universal recovery provides a deep and full recovery if you want to get a full recovery and do not mind the long recovery time.

Then you can start to scan the location you choose. The scanning time also depends on the size of your files. After scanning, you are able to preview all the results to find your lost files. If you can preview the files you need, you can check all of them.

Next is to choose a recovery path. The recovery path should be another location and also should have no data loss. Check the files to save on this recovery path, then you have retrieved all your data.

Deleted files recovery Is it possible to recover data from the overwritten hard drive?

Many people have asked the similar question that can the deleted files on an overwritten hard drive still can be recovered? To answer this question, you have to know what happens when the data lost.

What happens when you delete files?

The data on the hard drive are physically stored here and are all managed by the file system. The file system create and contains all the information about the data, such as information table which contains the location of all data so that the data can be stored on different location and can be accessed quickly. Therefore, when you delete a certain file from the hard drive, the data information table in the file system will be removed. Without the location information, the file system cannot locate the data so that you cannot find them in your computer. But the real content of the data will not be removed, and they stays here until the system want to store new data. The system will access to the file system table for the free space. As the location of the deleted data has been marked as free, the system will write new data to replace the raw data. Until now, the deleted data has been erased from the drive and become unrecoverable. Similarly, when you format the hard drive, the data also will not be erased from here. If you only perform a high-level formatting, or quick format, it only empty the file system, the content of data will not be deleted.

Is it possible to recover data after overwritten occurs?

When you write new data to the hard drive, it requires for free space. The raw data will be physically removed from where it previously stored so that to be overwritten by new data. Until now, there is no data recovery software or technology known can help you to recover the overwritten data. Of course, if you only overwritten part of your data, you still can try the data recovery software to retrieve these data. Sometimes, even if you have write new data to the hard drive after data loss, it does not necessary means that your data have been overwritten. You can just take the data recovery software to try to restore your lost files.

At last, I would reiterate that backup is the most important way to secure your data. No one can predict when you will have a data loss or not. Once you have data loss, you will not be lucky at every time to recover your data.

Restore files How to get data off the dead hard drive?

If your hard drive is physically damaged, you have no other way unless ask the data recovery specialist for help. If you got a BSOD, your computer may cannot boot normally and enter into the system, you can try to fix by yourself. BSOD is short for Blue screen of death. When this error occurs, you cannot enter into the windows system normally. If you are lucky enough to come to the windows startup options, you still have way to recover your data. Even if you cannot come to the startup options, you still can use a windows disc to boot your computer.

How to boot from the windows disc?

After booting the computer, you can enter into BIOS settings, then change the setup to choose CD-ROM or other device. After you have successfully boot from the disc, you can choose the option of Recovery console. Then on the screen, in the command prompt window, you can type chkdsk /r to check and repair the errors on hard drive. If everything goes well, your computer will reboot and after that you are able to access to windows. If it does not work, you can boot into the recovery console again. Fixboot will help you to rewrite the startup sector on hard drive, Fixmbr command is to repair the Master boot record.

Another way is to remove your hard drive from the computer and then connect it with another healthy computer used as a slave drive. It will display as an external hard drive in the new computer. In this way, you do can access to the hard drive on the new computer so that you can transfer the data between the failed hard drive and the new computer easily.

If your hard drive occasionally has such problems, you can try to get the data off the drive as soon as possible. After you have retrieved all the data from the hard drive, you can try to fix it by yourself or ask the specialists to repair it. If the hard drive is physically damaged and cannot be recognized on the new computer, you will forever lost your data here. Therefore, you can only recover data from your backups. If you have no other copies, no one can help you.

How to restore files from a dead hard drive with data recovery tool?

First, you should boot the computer into the windows system, or remove the hard drive to connect a new computer and  make sure it recognized.

Second, run the Hdata recovery software. On the software interface, you should choose a recovery mode to scan the hard drive. Choose the mode of Hard drive partition lost or crash. If you connect the hard drive as a second drive for another computer, you should choose the mode of Deleted your files from flash disk. And no matter how you lost your data, you can choose the Universal Recovery to deep scan the drive.

Third, choose the partition to scan. It will scan automatically and the scanning should not be interrupted. The software provides the feature of preview and filter, so you can preview the scanning results and only check the files you need to recover.

Fourth, choose the recovery path. You should not choose the partition where have data loss as a recovery path. To avoid data overwritten caused by incomplete recovery, you should select another location to save the data.

Hdd data recovery How to recover data from a reformatted hard drive?

Everyone may have ever make a stupid mistake like accidentally delete all your important data, or even reformat the hard drive. By the time you realize it, it has been too late to regret. You may ask the question like that, how can I recover the data from hard drive after formatting?  Of course you still have chance to recover data from the formatted hard drive, but the success rate depends.

How to perform hdd data recovery after reformatting the hard drive?

The most important thing before recovering the data

The first thing you should remember is to avoid writing new data to the hard drive. No data overwritten is the necessary condition for the data recovery. After the data loss, or your format the drive, the content of all the data will stay here although you cannot find them in windows. But when you write new data to the system, it randomly write the new data to the disk, if there is no other free space for the new data, the new data will take the place of raw data so that the lost files become unrecoverable. If you lost data on the system drive, you should not reboot from this drive.

In addition, you should also not reformat it, or install othe programs here.

Next you should pick your data recovery software. As you have avoid data loss on the hard drive, you can take the data recovery tool to restore the lost files.

Run Hdata recovery software on your computer, click the recovery mode of Formatted hard drive accidentally to restore the lost files from formatted hard drive. If you lost data in external drive or in other situations, you can take the other recovery mode.

Video tutorials about how to recover data from formatted hard drive

Data recovery software can recover your data that has not been overwritten, but you still should remember to back up your data regularly.  At the same time ,if you have to format the drive, you should not forget to back up all the data before that. If you lost data due to formatting the drive, you should recover immediately. And please keep in mind to take the right way to format the hard drive. As we all know that, full format will erase all the data on the drive, so you’d better to quick format the hard drive if you do not want to wipe the data on your drive.

How to repair a hard disk Usage of CHKDSK in Windows

CHKDSK is an useful troubleshooting tool in windows. You can run CHKDSK to scan the drive to check the errors, it will fix some of the logical errors it detected. It is available in all versions of Windows.You can access to the Command prompt by click Start>Run an type “CMD” to open the command prompt window. It helps to scan the hard drive to find and fix the problems. This article will introduce some of the commands in windows to help you to fix the drive.

How to repair a hard disk with CHKDSK?

Check disk with Windows explorer

Right-click the drive you need to fix, and chose Properties from the right-click menu. In the properties menu, click the Tools tab, you will see a Check button. Click this button to check the drive. The windows will prompt you that you do not need to scan this drive if it found no errors here. But if you want to you can still scan the drive. Before you start to scan the drive, you are also required to choose to automatically fix file system errors or scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. If have checked both of them, it will take you a long time to scan and fix the errors. The experts suggest to run chkdsk every few month to maintenance your hard drive. It can schedule it to run when the windows shut down abnormally or run when it boot.

How to run check disk in command prompt?

Type CMD in the search box and run the cmd.exe as administrator. If you want to scan and fix the system drive, you can type “chkdsk C: /f or Chkdsk C: /r to scan for bad sectors and try to fix the bad sectors.

Also, you can run a third-party tool to fix the hard disk. It may be an easier way for all of us but you should choose a professional and reliable tool.

How to recover data from hard drive?

Run chkdsk regularly can help you to reduce data loss in long run, so you’d better check your disk regularly. Once there are bad sectors, all the data on the bad sector cannot be recovered. If your data loss are due to accident deletion, formatting or other logical problems, you should try to use the data retrieval tool to restore them immediately. After you lost the data, the content of the data are still on the hard drive, they will not be erased until they are replaced by new data. Therefore, as long as you recover your data at the first time, generally you can recover all the data back. Data loss is not serious at all, what matters is to avoid more data loss after that and recover the data in time.

PC hard drive recovery How to use Bluetooth between phone and PC?

Bluetooth technology now is widely used. Today’s mobile devices like tablet pc, mobile phone, and almost all the laptop have the Bluetooth capacities. With the Bluetooth feature,we can transfer data between computer and mobile phone easily without an USB cable. It seems a more convenient way.

Why people tend to use Bluetooth?

If you use the USB cable to connect your mobile phone and the laptop, you may have some troubles. For example,if your laptop is only equipped with one or two USB port, you have to plug the mouse, and U disk, so there is no free USB port for your mobile phone. You solution may be unplug the U disk for the mobile phone. If you want to transfer the files in the U disk to mobile phone, you have to copy them to the computer and then move to the mobile phone. That’s a big trouble for us. If you use the Bluetooth to transfer data, things will be very easy. You do not need to use any USB cable, you just need the mobile phone and the laptop.

How to transfer data between laptop and computer?

First, you need to turn on the Bluetooth of the two device. You can find Bluetooth menu in Settings in your mobile phone. For laptop, you can find Bluetooth in Settings>Devices>Bluetooth. Turn on the Bluetooth on the laptop, it will search for your mobile phone automatically. After it has detected your mobile phone, you can select it and click Pair. Next time, your mobile phone will automatically connect to your laptop unless you turn off the Bluetooth, unpair them. But you should transfer data to phone within a range of 10 meters.

After you have pair your laptop and phone, you can start to transfer data. Choose the files you need to share, choose Send to> Bluetooth device from the right-click menu. Select the device you need and you need to accept the device on your mobile phone. Then the selected files will be transferred to your mobile phone.

In addition, you can also use the wireless networking to transfer the data. It can be think as another kind of Bluetooth over WiFi and has a faster transmission speed.

Once you have data loss on your PC, you should stop using the hard drive to store new data.If you lost data on the system drive, you should not run any programs, download files to this drive. The sooner you take the recovery tool to restore the lost files, the less data you will lost. After you have retrieved all the data from the hard drive, you can use the Bluetooth to transfer the data to your mobile phone.

PC hard drive recovery

Transferring data between mobile phone and computer may be a good way to back up your data. Once you have data loss on one of them, you can restore from another device. But to secure your data, you should back up your data regularly and keep more than one copies on other devices.

How to recover data from a laptop hard drive which cannot boot?

When we are faced with laptop problems, generally the issues can be diagnosed by itself. But it’s no way to find the problem even when the laptop cannot boot. In that case, before you take it for reparation, you should try the following ways to check your laptop first to find out the reasons why your laptop cannot boot.

Check the battery of laptop

The battery issues can cause the laptop cannot boot. You can check this by removing the battery from your laptop. First, you need to connect the charger cable to another laptop to check if it works normally. Then you should remove the battery and plug the laptop into a power source. This is help you to find out which cause the laptop cannot boot, the battery, the charger cable, or other components.

Try the command prompt

If your laptop cannot boot properly but you still can access to the command prompt interface, you still can troubleshooting the laptop. You can boot the laptop, and choose to enter BIOS interface. In the BIOS setup utility interface, you can navigate to the Boot tab, choose Boot device Priority. It allows you to boot from other devices, such as the boot disc or your USB drive. Then you can insert the USB drive or disc into the laptop to reboot your computer. After you have select the language and input preference, you can click to Repair your computer. Next select troubleshoot > advanced options>command prompt. Then you can enter the commands window to troubleshoot the laptop. As you have boot from the disk or drive, you can choose the system restore or startup repair to fix this problem.

Assign drive letter for the system drive

If the partition where the operating system is installed has not assigned a drive letter, it can cause the boot problem. But you can reassign a drive letter in the command prompt interface. Open the command prompt window use the disk partition utility. Type diskpart and press enter. Then type list volume. It will list all the drives here. You can change or assign drive letter for all the volumes. Make sure that you have selected the correct drive, or it will cause problems.

Try boot repair disk

If you have boot problems,use the boot repair disc is an easier way. It can automatically find the problems which cause your laptop cannot boot.

After you have enter into the operating system, you can start to recover your data. Generally, you will have no data while you are trying to fix the boot issues. If you have not write new data to overwrite the raw data on the hard drive, you can get a full recovery.

How to recover data from the laptop?

First, you need to boot your computer into system. Install the Hdata recovery software on your laptop.

Second, locate where you lost the files. Choose a recovery mode to scan this partition, or you can choose Universal Recovery to perform a deep scanning.

Third, after scanning, you can preview the results to find the files you need to recover. Choose the files you need to restore.

Fourth, select the recovery path. To avoid data overwriting, you should choose the location where you have no data loss. If you choose partition C as a drive letter, but you had data loss here, in case there is a data recovery failure or interruption, some of the raw data will be replaced. Therefore, you may have some data unrecoverable.

Unrecognized external hard drive recovery software

While using the external hard drive , we may usually face the problem that it cannot be detected in computer. What happened and how to make it show up in the computer? There are many reasons for your external hard drive cannot be recognized by computer. For example, the USB cable and port problem, file system issues, partition and driver problems. To make the external hard drive can be detected by computer, you can try to check these errors.

Check if the external hard driver show up in disk management

After plugging the external hard drive into your computer, you can open the disk management to know if it is listed here. If it is here, it means that the computer has recognized it. But you cannot find it in My computer, you need to fix it. The way to make this drive recognized by computer is to format the drive. The problem is that formatting will delete all the data on the drive. Therefore, before you perform a format, you need to use a data recovery software to retrieve all the data on the external hard drive.

After you have gotten all the data back, you can format it in disk management. You just need to right-click it to choose format, and then select the volume label, file system and allocation size.

The external hard drive does not show up in disk management

If the external hard drive is not listed in the disk management, there are several possible problems which can cause this. First, there is a problem in the USB cable or the USB port. You can unplug the drive and plug it to other USB ports or other computer. Second, there is a driver problem. If the drive still does not work on other computer you should check the drivers. Open the Device management, in the Disk drivers part, if you can find a yellow exclamation, you have a driver problem. You can try to fix thie problem by the error message. Third, you have a dead external drive. If your external hard drive has dead, you can take it to a data recovery company to repair. If the specialist also cannot fix it, you have to replace a new one.

Once the drive has been recognized, you can run the data recovery tool to restore the files. Sometimes, your external hard drive may be recognized but inaccessible. That does not matter, as long as it show up in disk management, the recovery tool can scan and recover the lost files from here.

External Hard Drive Data Recovery How to retrieve deleted files

Format recovery software How to format a new hard drive

If you have a new hard drive or solid state drive, whether it is a brand new or you bought from others, you should format it before you can use it. If you have a hard drive formatted for other operating system, it may not be compatible with your operating system. The solution is to format it.

How to format the new hard drive in windows?

All the formatting operations should be finished in Disk management.

You can open the disk management by search for “Disk management” in the start menu, or find it in the control panel.

In the Disk management, you will see all the drive listed here. Find the correct drive which you need to format. You can figure out it with the capacity it shows here. And the drive that has not been formatted will appear as raw and without file system and drive letter. Right-click this drive and select Format from the right-click menu. Before you perform the formatting, you should make sure it is the right drive, or you will suffer a disastrous data loss on other partition.

When you try to format this drive, you are required to select the Volume label, File system and Allocation unit size. The Volume label is the drive letter of the drive. You can name it as you like as long as it has not been used by other drives. File system allow you to choose to format to NTFS or FAT file system. For the Allocation unit size, you can leave it as default. Click OK and it will tell you that format will erase all the data. Click OK to continue.

For a new hard drive, you need to divide it into several individual partitions. After you separate it as multiple partitions, the system will recognized them as several separate partitions. The partitioning can be done in disk management. Similarly, you can also choose to combine two partitions, and extend or shrink the partitions.

How to use format recovery software to retrieve the lost files?

As we have mentioned above, formatting will erase all your data on the hard drive. If you perform a quick format, you still have chance to recover the deleted files. While if you perform a full format, you can never recover your files back,. Therefore, you should remember to back up your data before you start to format your partitions. However, if you want to merge partition, extend or shrink partition, you also should keep copies for you data.

In case you have data loss before you can backup, as long as the data have not been completely erased or overwritten, you can try to use the data recovery software to retrieve them. No matter whether you can recover them or not, you should keep in mind to back up data regularly. If you want to format the drive where have data, you’d better avoid performing a full format.

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.

Harddrive recovery How to fix the sleep mode pattern?

Safe mode are used by us to get the computer ready for us to use, while we do not need to turn off and turn on the computer, and also do not waste the power of computer. For a laptop computer, sleep mode is very necessary to conserve power. However, if this function does not work, what should we do to fix this problem?

How to fix the sleep mode problem?

First, you can check the settings for sleep mode. You can find the settings in Control panel> Power Option. In the Change settings for the plan: balanced part, you can change the sleep and display settings you want your computer to use. You should not choose “Never” in the Put the computer to sleep option. Set the time you need.

If you have set the sleep mode in settings but it does not work, you should make a further check.

Second, check the drivers. Check if the windows drivers are outdated. If it is not the latest version, you need to update to the latest version.

Third, use the windows utilities to troubleshoot the computer. Open the Control panel and find Troubleshooting, click to view all to find all the troubleshooters here. You will find the troubleshooter of Power and System Maintenance. You can run them to know of the sleep mode can work well.

Fourth. Reboot your computer in safe mode. You can reboot your computer in safe mode and check in the System configuration. Click the Service tab and check the option of hide all Microsoft services, click disable all. Then click the startup tab to click open task manager to disable all the startup item. Reboot the computer again, you can try to find which startup item that cause this problem.

If you still cannot solve this problem, you can restore the system to the default status. Open the power options, there is an option: Choose when to turn off the display. Click Restore the default settings for this plan.

How to perform harddrive recovery?

If you lost files on the computer hard drive, you have to use the data reocvey tools to try to retrieve the lost files. As you can see from the interface of Hdata recovery software, you can recover all the deleted files, and lost files on the formatted hard drive, lost or crashed partition. As long as the data overwriting has not occurred here, you may get a 100% data recovery.

Recover deleted items How to delete the files cannot be deleted?

Sometimes, you may found that you are unable to delete the files, and the system tells you that the filename is too long. To solve this problem, first, we need to learn more about the long filename, which is short for LFN.

What are the long filenames?

Some windows system use LFN system supports file names up to 255 characters. While other operating system do not have this limit. Many windows system require the filename character should be shorter than 255.  Sometimes, the files with long filenames is moved from other operating systems, while others may be the media file or other cache files with long filename. Therefore, if you try to delete the files with long filenames, the system will tell you that the name of the file is too long to be deleted.

How to deal with the file with long filenames?

Use the command prompt to generate a shorter filename

Find the directory where store the file with long filename, press shift and then right-click on the empty area, click Open command window here from the right-click menu.

Enter DIR /X command in the command prompt window. It will list all the files and folders in this directory. If there are too many files to display on a single screen, you should use the command DIR /X /P to pause and move.

On the screen, you will find the file with filename like “abcde～1.TXT”, the long filename has been simplified. Then you can replace the file has a too long filename with the your modified file name. Type “del abcde～1.TXT and press enter. Then the windows will delete the file with too long filename.

Finally, you have easily deleted the files cannot be deleted. I believe that this is the most simple way for you to fix this error. However, there is another case that your files may be cannot be deleted. That is not for the filename is too long.

If this file has not a too long filename but cannot be deleted, it is possible that the file is still running in the background or used by other programs. And also virus attack, file corruption are also the possible causes. You can close this file and end all the running programs in task manager. If you still cannot delete it, you can use a third-party software or use the command prompt to try to delete.

Recover deleted item with data recovery software

If you delete your files by accident, and cannot find them in recycle bin, you should take recovery tool immediately.

How to recover deleted items from computer?

If you lost data for accidental deletion or you suffer an unexpected data loss, you should stop using your computer immediately. Your actions on computer can affect the result of data recovery. Therefore, it’s necessary to avoid adding new data to the hard drive after data loss. The following video will tell you how to retrieve the files after you have data loss.

Hard drive recovery tools How to disable the annoying features of Windows

Windows 10 are every popular and widely used by us. However, there still are some annoying features that bring us troubles. To deal with these annoying things, you can fix this features.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are very useful and convenient for us to save the time. But usually, we are very easy to have mistaken operations by press shortcuts. With the shortcut

 “Ctrl+C”, “Ctrl+A” “Ctrl+v”, you can easily to copy the file you check, copy all files and paste copied files. “Ctrl+Alt+Del” allows you to permanently delete the files quickly without entering into the recycle bin. But all these shortcuts have another side. You can easily lost data in the process of copying, pasting. Although you can press “Ctrl+Z” to undo the last operation, you cannot always succeed cancel the mistaken operation if you have other operations after that. When you permanently delete the files from your computer, you cannot undo the deletion if you have done some other operations to overwrite.

Therefore, if you want to avoid such kind of wrong operation, you can turn this feature off. You can type sticky keys in the search box to open the sticky keys. In the sticky keys page, you should uncheck the option of “Turn on Sticky keys when SHIFT is presses five times.

Windows annoying sounds

Windows will make sounds when you use the internet explorer and file explorer, you may feel annoying if you do not like these sounds. If you want to cancel these sounds, you can turn off in the Sound. You can open the sound control panel. Click the Sounds tab, in the Program Events part, there is a Notification with an icon. Click the program events the list and select those which you need to turn on or turn off the sound. Also you can change the sound scheme if you want to personalize the sound.

Hard drive recovery tools to recover the accidentally deleted files

If you accidentally lost files in copy or paste process and cannot get them back, or you permanently delete the files from the hard drive, you have to use a data recovery software to get them back. Data recovery should be perform immediately after you have data loss, only to avoid data overwriting as soon as possible can you recover your data as much as possible. Generally, using the recovery software will not take you a long time, but it depends on your file size. Hdata recovery can help you a lot in hard drive recovery. It not only provides recovery method for files lost in recycle bin, deleted files in lost or crashed partition, formatted hard drive, but also all the data loss situations in the USB devices. If you want to make a full and deep scan on your device, you also can take Universal recovery.

8 Frequently Asked Questions about HData Recovery

Data recovery free how to reset your Windows password

Many people have set a password for the login screen of windows, but some of them, like me, always forget the password. Without the password, we cannot access the files on computer. Is there any way to reset the password when we forget the password?

Ways to reset the Windows login password?

1. If you use a Microsoft account to sign in, you can rest the password easily. Go to the Microsoft password reset page, there are three choices for you. Click the option of I forgot my password, and click next to recover the password. In the Recover your account page,  you should type your email address and complete a quick CAPTCHA. It’s not difficult at all to reset the password. After you have get back the password, you can enter the system.

2. If you use a local account, you have to use the admin account. You can ask the administrator to change the password for you. If you cannot use the administrator account to change the password, you have to use an installation disk, or a system repair disk to reset the password.

3. You can remove the password in safe mode with command prompt

Boot your computer in safe mode and choose Safe mode with command prompt. Reboot the computer and press F8 to enter Advanced boot options,choose Safe mode with Command prompt and press Enter. Type user,press enter and you will see the listed account here. To remove the password, you can type “net user name *“ without quote, then it will replace the username. Then reboot the computer you will find that you can bypass the password.

After you have successfully enter into the system, you can start to recover your lost files.Before you use a data recovery software, you should make sure you have not add new data to the hard drive partition where have data loss. No data recovery software can restore the erased data. Therefore, backup and avoid data overwriting is necessary.

Download Hdata recovery software from the website, run it to come to its blue interface.

If you want to recover deleted files from hard drive, you can choose the mode of Deleted files accidentally, or click Universal Recovery to give a full and deep scan on the hard drive.

Next step is to scan the hard drive and find the deleted files. After scanning, you are able to preview all the files and check what you need by the filter options.

Choose a recovery path for your data. If you want to recover files from one partition, you should choose other partition to store the data.

HData Recovery Tutorial - 3 Steps Recover All Deleted File

Recover files when black screen occurs at boot

Black screen is always a bad news for us. Sometimes, when you boot your computer, you may find a black screen. As you cannot boot the computer, you cannot get more detailed diagnose information to help you to solve this problem. Not only we cannot fix this problem, but also cannot access to the data. What should we do to fix the black screen? If you do not know how to deal with it, you can follow the steps below to try to fix the black screen.

The first step: check all the cables. Please make sure that the cable running from your monitor to your computer is well connected and turn on the monitor. If it still does not work, you can switch the cable to other video input or change another cable to see if the problem has been solved. Or you can connect the monitor to another computer to see if the monitor works well. If not, you may need to repair or replace a new monitor.

The second step: find out the possible external device which may cause black screen. To achieve this, you have to remove all the external devices. Such as external hard drive, U disk, mouse, keyboard. Then reboot your computer. If the computer does not get a black screen, you can be sure that it is the external device that cause the black screen. Then you should plug the device one by one to find which device cause the black screen. After you find out the device which cause the problem, you need to update its driver.

The third step: reinstall the display drivers. You can boot the computer in safe mode. If you can came to login screen, you can click: Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup settings > Restart. The computer will restart, press F5 to choose the safe mode with networking. If you cannot see anything on the screen, you can choose to use the recovery drive to fix. If not, you need to download windows and then use it to create installation media. To reinstall display drivers, you can boot your computer in safe mode and find the device manager, right-click to select the properties. In the Driver tab, there is a button of Roll Back Driver, it can help to roll back to the previously installed driver. If this does not work, you can click the Uninstall button to uninstall the driver.

How to recover files from black screen?

You can try to fix this problem when face a black screen. If you still cannot access to the system, you can take the hard drive out and then connect it with other computer to recover the files. To recover files, you need a hard drive recovery software. Hdata recovery software can help you to retrieve lost files from hard drive is various data loss situations as long as the data have not been overwritten. This video will help you to get back your lost files.

Failed hard drive recovery How to recover data from failed hard drive?

Hard drive failure is an upsetting thing for all of us, especially when you have irreplaceable data on the drive. We are easy to have data loss facing the fatal hard drive failures like sudden computer crash, computer cannot boot and some other problems. If you cannot enter into your computer to recover your lost data, you still can try the following method to recover your files.

How to perform a failed hard drive recovery?

If your hard drive is crashed, you should remove it from the computer. You should take the internal hard drive out of your current computer and then connect it to another computer. To connect it to another computer, you need to use an USB to IDE-SATA hard drive connector. Use this connector to connect the crashed hard drive to the new computer as a secondary drive. Then you can boot the computer. Once the new computer can detect the crashed drive in BIOS, you are able to access to it.

As you have accessed to the drive, you can check the data on this drive. You can copy the data to another drive. If you cannot copy the files, you can try to use a data recovery software. But before you try to recover data, you should not write new data to this drive to overwrite the raw data. This is the essential condition for you to recover the files successfully.

Failed hard drive recovery software

As long as your crashed hard drive can be detected by new computer, you can run the hard drive data recovery software to retrieve the data here.

First, you need to install the data recovery software on their new computer.

Second, scan the crashed hard drive and do not interrupt the scanning process.

Third, after scanning, check the results, preview the files and check the files you need to recover.

Fourth, choose a recovery path for the files need to be recovered. To avoid data overwritten, you should not save the data on the crashed hard drive. You can put the data on the hard drive of new computer or other external drives.

In case your crashed hard drive doesn’t work on the new computer, you have to consult the data recovery company if you can afford the price. But keep in mind to find a really professional and reliable company. The hard drive data recovery needs a dust-free room and high technology. The professional companies have their professional tools and experts to help you, and you do not need to worry about private information reveal.