If there is one mistake that can be classified as the most common error people make when attempting to deal with a crashed hard drive it is the absent minded automatic reloading of their Windows operating system as an attempt to cure all of their computer’s problems. In general reloading the Windows operating system is a great way to restore your computer to full operating condition after it has been the victim of a virus attack or suffered file corruption as a result of improper startup or shutdown. What seems to be universally forgotten is the process of reloading Windows deletes all of your stored files. Before you can reload Windows you must successfully complete basic hard drive recovery.
We do this by using hard drive recovery software. These are software programs designed to read all of the files that have been stored on your hard disk drive. Not only will these programs read the existing and visible files they will also scan through every byte of your computer’s hard drive searching for and finding recently deleted files. In this case deleted files will mean those you deleted on purpose and files that were damaged or corrupted.