7 Basic Steps to Perform Windows Data Recovery - By: Jucy

In this computerized world, there are numerous horror stories when it comes to restoring the lost data. In many circumstances, when the data has been lost due to hard drive problems, it is most important to not run the hard drive data recovery.

Several computer users who have used data recovery software to recover data and as it can take long time to complete, more damage can possible. In order to avoid this, here are 7 steps to perform windows data recovery:

1. Shut down the computer as soon as you come to know that data loss has occurred. Further use of the computer may overwrite the data and can cause further damage to data or can make them irretrievable.
2. Detach the affected hard drive from your computer and attach it to a healthy computer, as a slave, which is running windows operating system.
3. Try to access the slave drive. If you are able to access it and you can see the data on this drive, save them to healthy drive or store on removable storage media.
4. In case when data loss is occurred due to accidental deletion or hard drive formatting, you can see the data. In this case you need for Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. Download the demo version of the software from Stellar website.
5. Install the demo on healthy hard drive and launch it.
6. In the left panel, select the proper drive to which you want to scan. After completing the scanning process, it will show the result in tree format. Preview the files, but it doesn't allow you to save them.
7. If you are satisfied with the result, purchase the activation key to activate the software and save the recovered files.

Stellar Phoenix Windows file restore software is a powerful data recover tool. It can recover data in all possible cases of data loss. This data recovery software is very easy to use and no prior technical knowledge is required to use this software. you can recover data by following these steps:

1. Install the Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software and launch it.
2. In the left panel, the software displays the list of logical drives, select the drive from which you want to recover the data.
3. A window will pop-up with three scanning option: Standard Scan, Advanced Scan and Create Image File.
4. Select the scan option according to requirement. Standard scan can search the data in most of the cases, but if you don't get the desired result, choose advanced scan option.
5. If you have bad sectors in your hard drive, you should select Create Image File option to create the image of the drive and then perform scanning on it.
6. After completing the scanning process, the data recovery software will display the result in easily understandable tree format. Select the "Recover all" option if you want to select all files otherwise select the required files and choose "Recover Selected" option.
7. It will open a new window with different save options, select the appropriate save option and click ok button.

In this way, you can recover deleted files with the help of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software very easily.

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