Important Notes:
- You should not use the system with the deleted
files to surf the Internet, check mail or create documents.
- Never install software to disk containing deleted files you wish to recover.
- The more activity, the less chance of a successful recovery.
Click here to view
the FILERECOVERY® help file.
If you need to download the compressed and
encrypted recovery tools for FILERECOVERY® Professional,
please click
here:
FRPRO-TOOLS
The following steps describe how to quickly
scan your drive for lost data using FILERECOVERY® Professional.
First reduce the amount of scan options
on the software to find the correct type of
data:
- Start the FILERECOVERY® Professional software and close the wizard
- Click the Open Drive icon and then click on the Scan Options
icon
- If your drive was in NTFS format, uncheck the FAT drive options; if it was a
FAT drive, uncheck the NTFS options
- Uncheck the Maximum File Size option
- If your drive was NTFS, click on the Scan Filter tab and uncheck the
Rebuild Folder Structure option
- Click Save, then OK
Follow the steps below to scan the drive:
- Start the FILERECOVERY® Professional software and close the wizard
- Click the Open Drive icon and then go to the Physical drive tab
- Choose the Fixed Disk number that is the same as the drive missing the data
- Click on Full Scan in the lower right
- Click OK on the sector range
- When this scan finishes, you will be back in the Select Drive screen - there should be green icon drives showing
- Look at the green drives and choose the one that most closely matches the
original partition you were looking for
- Click OK and let that scan run
- When finished, click the Find Lost Data icon on the left tool bar
- Click OK on the cluster range
- When this scan finishes, it will be a deep scan of that partition, and you
can use the Find Files icon on the left to search for specific data
- Save the data off to another drive - do not write the data back to the original
location
NOTE: If the data you are looking for cannot be found, do
NOT close FILERECOVERY® Professional;
click on Open Drive and choose
another green drive icon, and repeat the
last four steps.
