Hard Drive Mechanic

Whenever your computer experiences data loss, this does not mean that some of your documents have actually been misplaced, but rather that your PC cannot correctly find its location.

This situation can have various causes, such as virus infection, a power surge, faulty game or software installation, and other, basically anything than can affect partitions, FAT or boot sectors.

In order to retrieve your data, you need to rely on specialized applications, such as Hard Drive Mechanic, that can reconstruct the file system.

The GUI (graphical user interface) is highly intuitive and user-friendly, however the app should not be used by novices as they can cause a lot of damage in their attempt to fix computer issues.

You need to start by diagnosing the problem, so as to identify its exact nature, so as to know which steps should be taken further on. Alternatively, the IDE Utilities function can be used, if you want to determine whether the issue was cause by the HDD’s electronic components.

Hard Drive Mechanic enables you to create rescue diskettes that can be later used to roll-back any action performed by the app, assuming it did not succeed in fixing the problem.

Despite its many functions, Hard Drive Mechanic comes with one major drawback: you need to copy the installation files to a floppy diskette in order to boot the computer off it; on the other hand, this type of disks is obsolete and many computers do not even have slots for them.