How to Backup or Recover Data from Corrupt Hard Drive Disk

Why do you need to backup data from hard drive

Hard Disk corruption caused by virus attack, natural disaster or many misoperations usually result in terrible data loss disaster. It always brings real pain and panic to users. Maybe you can restore the data from the corrupted hard drive with data recovery service or third-party data recovery software. But as we all know, corrupted hard drive recovery is really a long and complicated procedure if you have no backup. Then how can you avoid such a problem? We think the best way is to regular backup data from hard drive with reliable hard disk backup software. Compared with corrupted hard drive recovery, it is the easiest and most efficient way to protect or retrieve your hard drive data.

What is the best tool to back up data from hard drive

Even most computer users have recognized the importance of data backup, but few of them do this job because they fail to find a reliable tool that allows them to backup data from the hard drive in a safe and easy way. Here we recommend you to try EaseUS PC backup software, a utility works perfectly well to backup the whole hard disk, partition or the operating system. Coming with a lot of flexible and advanced features, the program can help you do the following operations to protect your data in case of hard drive corruption:

• Back up and recover specified files and folders.
• Back up and recover partition or disk including the operating system.
• Make a backup schedule to run backup plan automatically.
• Only back up the changed data using differential or incremental backup function.
• Restore system to a new computer with different hardware.
• Clone hard disk or partition to another one.

Steps to back up data from hard drive with EaseUS backup software

Step 1. Open EaseUS Todo Backup and select "File Backup".

You may have a large amount of vital data to be protected as time goes on, such as documents, pictures, music, and videos, etc. It is always a good habit to have a backup on a regular basis. File Backup is one of the best choices for you to get over unexpected data loss.

Step 2. Select the files that you want to back up.

If you just want to back up one or some specific file types from one folder, the option at top right corner can help you exclude the other files.

Step 3. Select a destination to save your backup file. You'd better create the backup file in some other storage media or in some other drive. If not, there may be a risk of the backup file getting corrupted or destroyed.

Advanced backup settings are useful when you want to create a flexible and automatic backup plan. 

The schedule is to create an automatic backup plan.

Backup options are to edit the advanced parameters. 

Image-reserve strategy is to reserve the limited image as per image retention rule.

Advanced backup settings are for reference only but not a prerequisite for backup.

Step 4. Click "Proceed" to execute your operation.

After making a backup, data recovery from the corrupted hard drive will become as simple as A-B-C. You can fully get back your lost or inaccessible files from the backup file whenever your hard drive is damaged or corrupted in just seconds. No data recovery service or third-party data recovery software is needed.