Whenever a person needs to recover hard drive files, the cause behind that need is usually a crashed hard drive. And if our hard drive is crashed it always follows that our computer will not load Windows and start. The need to recover hard drive files comes about as the first step in repair of any Windows based computer. If we were to merely reload our operating system, that is, our version of Windows without first rescuing from our crashed hard drive all of our important stored files, the process of reloading Windows will reformat our computer hard drive and essentially erase all of our files. While data recovery programs can recover files after reformatting, the process is much more difficult than the effort required to retrieve files from a basically crashed hard drive. To recover hard drive files lost due to a crash simply load into your computer’s disk drive the special file recovery disk. This disk loads a data recovery program directly onto your computer’s RAM and runs your computer from the short term memory. Better crashed hard drive recovery programs are built on to a miniature Windows operating system that will allow you to start your computer and access all stored files regardless of any previous operating system files that have been corrupted and are now missing.