Initiating The Recovery Process

If you don't know where to start and your hard drive is running OK, your problems can probably be solved easily with disk recovery software. In fact, some utilities are so easy to use that all you need to do to get started is to put in the CD, or floppy diskette, run the data recovery utility, and then attach an external new hard drive to recover the data to.

After everything is complete, use the manufacturers restore disk to reload your system, and copy the recovered data to your newly restored system. Disk recovery does take time, and it isn't something you look forward to, but when you realize that you may be able to recover all of your lost data, it's worth it.