By Bill Whelden
Remember the day when your computer crashed and you remembered that you never set up a file backup system? Remember the day when you discovered that the backup program you thought you set up actually was never running? Unfortunately these are two extremely common scenarios. The simple fact is that hard drives fail, computers are increasingly ubiquitous, and humans are prone to procrastination. This is especially true when it comes to setting up the dreaded backup system.
If this is a familiar scenario, there are several different things you can do to try and recover files from your computer. Believe it or not, but even when your computer has crashed you can often still recover most emails and documents.
To recover data from a crashed computer you need to enlist the services of an IT professional, or have the following on-hand:
- A computer that has crashed.
- A second hard drive.
- Another working computer with a USB connection.
- An external case to put the old hard drive in.
Recovering the data consists of a five-step process.
- Transfer the hard drive from the crashed computer to the external drive and connect it to a new computer.
- Turn the external drive on and the new computer should find it immediately.
- Go to My Computer and open up the new drive that appears there.
- Copy the files you want and paste them to a new hard drive.
- If you do not see the hard drive in My Computer, it is likely that the drive has physical damage and needs to be repaired.
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