For almost two years I had a perfectly good laptop computer sitting in my closet doing nothing. The reason I parked it there was because one morning I would start that laptop PC instead of seeing the familiar Windows Vista welcome screen I found myself staring at a bright blue Windows error screen. The error message told me that I was missing operating system files needed to start my PC. Apparently the only way to install these files would be to reload Windows onto my computer. This didn’t seem like too bad an option until I realized and was prompted that reloading Windows would delete all of my old files from the computer’s internal hard drive. Aside from the usual junk I had saved among those files was a great deal of creative writing that I had no desire to lose.

With that in mind I set the laptop in my closet with no solution at hand. A short while ago I discovered that data recovery tools from Remo Software could rescue my data. This process known as disk recovery allows one to scan a computer onto which Windows has been reinstalled and recover from that computer’s hard drive any files deleted due to reformatting. It is a simple method to solve the problem of crashed hard drive recovery.