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My computer was recently "fixed" by a friend who said he could not recover my Word documents or any files on the hard drive. He said it was a "partition" problem. Can files be retrieved from a corrupted or crashed hard drive? I'm a church pastor and lost all my sermons. Any help you can offer is appreciated!
The short answer to your question is that yes, in many cases you will be able to recover Word documents and files from a corrupted or crash hard drive. You'll just need some special software. Read on to discover what you need to do to retrieve your sermons.
Data recovery software is designed to recover lost or missing data from computer hard drives. In particular, this type of software can retrieve documents and files of many types provided they have not been overwritten with new data. This includes Word documents, emails, images, music, folders, applications, and more.
Overwritten Documents
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Each time you write new documents, they take up space on the storage media. If you have deleted any documents, it is possible that they will be written over with the new data. If the document that you want to retrieve has been written over with new data, then it will no longer exist and you won't be able to retrieve it.
How Does Data Recovery Software Work?
Once you download and install data recovery software, you can use it to scan your computer to recover Word documents, files, images, videos, and other data. In many instances, you are able to select the type of data that you wish to recover. You can also recover previously deleted documents and files as long as they haven't been overwritten with new data. Therefore, not only should you be able to retrieve any files that you have stored on the hard drive, but you should also be able to recover files that you might have recently deleted or accidentally lost. Not only can you recover files individually, you can also recover entire folders and partitions.
ParetoLogic Data Recovery Pro
One data recovery application that I have personally used and can recommend is Data Recovery by ParetoLogic Software. This link will take you to a free trial scanner that will provide you with a list recoverable files found on your computer. If the scanner finds your lost sermons, in order to recover them, you will need to purchase the fully featured product. It's about $40 or $50 depending on which version you choose. ParetoLogic Data Recovery is designed to recover hard drives that have crashed, lost partitions, the emptied contents of the Recycle Bin, formatted media, and more. The Pro version adds e-mail recovery.
You can choose to recover only those documents that you need or you can recover everything. It's important that you have sufficient room to save your recovered work as well. One tip that I might add is to make a back up copy of all of your sermons on CDs so that you have them should you experience another problem with your computer's hard drive.
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Susan Keenan | June 3rd, 2009
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