iTunes is used to help us to connect iPhone with computer to back up and transfer data. The iTunes backup stores on the hard drive of our computer. Once upon we connect iPhone with iTunes, it will automatically sync with iTunes. The iTunes backup keep on the hard drive in system drive, you cannot restore your iPhone without the backup. Generally, you will not delete them from your computer as you rely on it for restoration. But sometimes your computer may get a sudden crash, this could cause a big disaster for your data on hard drive. Without the backup, you will lost some important data. Especially, you lost some data like music library that cost lost of dollars. Today we will discuss how to restore data after a hard drive crash.
Recover from external hard drive
If you have backed up your iTunes backup to an external hard drive, you can try to restore from your external hard drive.
Connect you external hard drive contains iTunes backup to computer, open it and find the iTunes folder.
Drag the iTunes folder from the external hard drive to the default location on your computer. If you want to restore music library, the default folder is My Music folder.
Launch iTunes on your computer, click Choose Library to move on.
Click Choose to select the iTunes library. Then the iTunes use the new library that you have just restored from backup.
Restore from your iPhone
If you have synced your music library to your iPhone, you can restore them from your iPhone. You can choose to sync your iPhone with iTunes to back up your iPhone to iTunes.
Restore from iCloud account
If you have enabled your iCLoud account to automatically back up your iPhone, things will be quite easy for you. The iCloud will back up all the data that you have bought or downloaded from iTunes store and other data on iPhone. So that you can restore your photos, contacts, and apps and musics from iTunes easily from iCloud.
How to recover data with data recovery software?
Although you have iTunes backup, you cannot directly read the data , so you need to restore from iTunes. If you have iTunes backup, you can use the data recovery software to restore and extract data from the backup. A professional data recovery software can scan and restore all the data in backup.
Launch H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer and come to the software interface.
Select the recovery mode of “View and Restore files from iTunes backups”. The software will automatically analyse files in your iTunes backup and restore them.
After scan, you can see all the recovered data on the software. The data you deleted are displayed in red.
Click each file type to preview the data. Click the individual data, you can see the detailed information.
Tick the data you need to restore and click “Export selected Records’’ button. It only need several seconds to export the data.
Then you can find the recovery folder in the recovery location you choose.
To avoid data loss due to hard drive crash, you should back up your data for more than one copied on different place. And you’d better back up your iPhone in different ways such as use iCloud backup to add the security for your data. Once you have data loss, the backup is the most direct and effective way to restore your data.