Arkadian.eu thinking out loud_ Home Why? Hard Drive troubles and tips A friend of mine came to me with the following issue. Her computer was slow and they took it to PC World. All the technicians did was to reinstall Windows from the Recovery partition. No change in performance… Then my friend realised she was missing some important documents!… I told her to stop using it immediately and bring the machine to me.
The way hard drives work is as follows:
Here is what I did to save the files: