How Do You Use Hard Drive Data Recovery Software?
Sooner or later you will boot up your computer and see a question mark, sad Mac or other icon to indicate your hard drive is no longer working. Fortunately you can find a number of disk recovery programs, and most work the same. Here is a quick review of how to use data recovery software. Backup your hard drive at every opportunity. If your disk recovery software doesn’t solve this problem, you can always reformat and restore the backup. Purchase your software before your drive crashes. Install the available protection options. The best recovery software creates a backup of your drive’s directory that it can use to quickly recover the file structure. Routinely run drive diagnostics. At least check your disk controller and run read/write tests to make sure your software can read from all the sectors on the drive disks. Run a surface scan to map out bad disk sectors when you have the time (this will take a while). Conduct volume and file performance and maintenance tests. These will chec
