Is it safe to run GetDataBack on my crashed hard drive?
A. Yes, as long as your drive doesn’t have a physical problem, it is safe to use GetDataBack. The program will not change anything on the crashed drive, since it is a read-only software. Install the software on a working Windows computer and attach the hard drive which contains the lost files as a second hard drive to this computer. Make sure that the second hard drive is recognized by the BIOS. Then run GetDataBack and in Step 1 select your bad drive (usually this is HD129). Press ‘Next’. The program now will scan your drive. Depending on the the size of the drive this will take some time. As soon as the scan is ready you will see a list of of possible file systems the program has found. Usually you should select the first file system on the list. Press ‘Next’. Now the program will create the tree of the recovered files. After a while you will see a tree with your recovered files and folders. If the files are found you can evaluate the quality of the recovered files. Just select a fil
A. Yes, as long as your drive doesn’t have a physical problem, it is safe to use GetDataBack. The program will not change anything on the crashed drive, since it is a read-only software. Install the software on a working Windows computer and attach the hard drive which contains the lost files as a second hard drive to this computer. Make sure that the second hard drive is recognized by the BIOS. Then run GetDataBack and in Step 1 select your bad drive (usually this is HD129). Press ‘Next’. The program now will scan your drive. Depending on the the size of the drive this will take some time. As soon as the scan is ready you will see a list of of possible file systems the program has found. Usually you should select the first file system on the list. Press ‘Next’. Now the program will create the tree of the recovered files. After a while you will see a tree with your recovered files and folders. If the files are found you can evaluate the quality of the recovered files. Just select a fil
