Boot Disk File Recovery software

How to use Active@ Boot Disk to restore previously deleted or formatted data, files or folders?

Active@ File Recovery. Overview

With data recovery utility — Active@ File Recovery you can recover accidentally deleted files and folders located on existing drives, deleted or damaged partitions and save recovered data onto another logical, removable, network or floppy drive.

Before recovering make sure that you have access to another logical drive before attempting to recover a file.

How to use Active@ File Recovery:

1. From the Active@ Boot Disk shell, click Start > Programs > Active@ File Recovery.
   
   
2. You can see all available devices in a tree view under Local System Devices.
   
   
3. Select a logical drive for scanning.
4. If you want to scan the drive in basic mode:
   • Click Quick Scan. The status bar displays the progress of the scan.
     
   • After the scan is complete, a list of all folders and files appears in the right pane.
5. If you cannot locate or find your deleted files and folders you may need to scan the whole surface of a disk. To do this, select it and click SuperScan. The SuperScan Options dialog box appears:
   
   1. From the Scan What drop-down list, choose the drive that you want to scan.
   2. For recovering files based on raw data select the File types to be recognized.
   3. For restricting the scan to a small number of sectors, indicate the From sector and the number of sectors to scan.
   4. Select the check box next to each type of partition that you want to search for deleted files and folders.
   5. For rebuilding image files (BMP, JPG, DOC, ZIP, etc.) from partial data select options in File types to be recognized based on signatures area.
   6. Click Start. The status bar displays the progress of the scan.
   7. Then you'll see a list of detected partitions appear in the right pane. You may search through these partitions.
   8. If you chose to recover by signature, a folder named Files Recognized by Signatures appears. If required you may search through the contents of this folder.
6. Then you can search for deleted or damaged folders or files:

   File Recovery Application: Recovering files and folders from deleted or damaged partitions

   
7. If you would like to search for files or folders based on a specified date range, you can select any combination of check boxes for Created, Modified or Accessed (Deleted) and indicate the date range.
8. For searching for files or folders based on the size of the file, you can select the Size check box and indicate a size range.
9. For starting the search, click Find. The progress of the search will be displayed on the status bar.
10. After the search completes, a new folder named Search appears in the Local System Devices list.
11. Select a file or folder that you want to restore.
12. Click Recover. The Recovery Options dialog box appears:
    • To revise the file name in the Name field.
    • In the Recover To field, enter a path to a drive other than the drive where you found this file or folder. You may also browse to another drive.
    • Click Recover.

      The file or folder is recovered to the new path.

	A device scan or a search may take a long time. To stop a device scan or a search, click Stop at any time.
	For more detailed instructions and support, see the Active@ File Recovery User Guide.