Recover Files & Folders only - copies all safe files and folders from the partition being recovered to a new target disk.

Make sure Copy All Data to a New Disk tab is active: Right-click the partition, and then choose Recover from the context menuĮxecute the Recover command from Tools menu To open the Recovery Options dialog box, use one of the following methods: In Partition Recovery, use QuickScan or SuperScan to detect a deleted partition, verify its content and select the deleted partition node. The copy process itself could take a long time, especially in cases where you have terabytes of data (videos or photo archives). You keep your original damaged disk (all data on it remains untouched), and just copy all your valuable information to a dedicated attached HDD/SDD, external USB Disk or USB Flash Card. This approach is the safest way to get all your data backed up to a new safe place (storage), however this is also the slowest way.

RAID Disk Array crashed and needs to be re-builtĬopying All Volume Data to another Location.

Partition or volume has been formatted accidentally.

Volume boot sector is damaged by virus or power surge and volume becomes unreadable (inaccessible).

Hard Disk has some physical damage (unreadable or bad sectors).

USB Flash or Camera Memory Card is damaged or formatted.

Possible scenarios when this is applicable: You just want to restore all live (non-deleted) volume data (files and folders) to another media in a single operation. There are other scenarios when you do not want to recover your data in-place. In this case you should try the second option: copy all existing data from the corrupted volume to a new physical disk. However, if some data overwriting occurred, or damage to the file system took place, Windows might not recognize the recovered volume (a drive with an assigned letter does not appear), or you may get messages like 'Drive is not accessible'. In this case the recovery process is very fast, and you'll be able to access your files using Windows Explorer (or any other program) immediately after recovery.

Copy all data to a new safe location (to another attached or external physical disk)įirst option (in-place recovery) works best when the partition/volume was just deleted, or the data and the file system on deleted/re-created/re-formatted partition have not been severely damaged (overwritten).

Physical recovery of the boot sector and partition table (in-place recovery).

There are two basic approaches for restoring all volume data: How to restore a deleted, formatted or corrupted partition

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