Basic File Recovery

NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS ON THE SAME LOGICAL DISK WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!

Basic file recovery can be made for deleted files that has resided on an existing logical disk visible by the operating system. In all other cases, Advanced Data Recovery is required.

•	Select the disk and click the Open Drive Files button,

•	Right-click the selected disk and select Open Drive Files in the context menu,

•	Select the disk and press F5 key.

•	Select Open Drive Files in the Drive menu

If you try to enumerate files on a hard drive or another object without a valid file system on it, a Double-click a logical disk... message will appear. Select a logical disk on the object or scan the object.

Restorer2000 analyzes MFTs on NTFS partitions and FATs on FAT partitions. Then it displays all files which records have been found in the analyzed tables. Then deleted files, which records still remain, can be restored. If files have not been found, that means that their records have been deleted. To find such files, Advanced Data Recovery is required.

Please note that Restorer2000 shows only those files/folders that match a specified file mask.

The Log panel will show how many files and folders are on the object, and their size. You may specify which events will be shown in the log pane by setting a log filter.

Note: Metafiles are the file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system data, which Restorer2000 represents as files. These files do not contain user data directly. Unless you want to scrutinize a disk file system, do not restore them.

You may select several files/folders in the same parent folder by pressing the Shift button and clicking the objects simultaneously.

Mark a file/folder to restore by clicking the box left to the object, or select Mark in the context menu. You may mark several files/folders in different parent folders. You may mark all objects in the folder by selecting Mark All in the context menu. To unmark an object, click the box left to the object once more or select Unmark in the context menu. You may unmark all objects in the folder by selecting Unmark All in the context menu.

The Log panel will show how many files and folders you have marked, and their total size.

Restorer2000 can search for a particular file. Go to the Searching for a File section for details.

File content may be previewed before recovery. Go to the Previewing Files section for details.

If you do not find files that you want to restore but are sure they have existed on the logical disk, you need to use Advanced Data Recovery to find them.

Right-click the selected file/folder and select Recover or Recover Marked in the context menu, or

NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS ON THE SAME LOGICAL DISK WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!

Condense successful restoration events	If selected, Log will display only error and warning messages
Restore folder structure	If selected, Restorer2000 restores the entire path to the selected object.
Ignore file mask	If selected, Restorer2000 restores all content of a selected folder, ignoring specified File Mask.
Recover alternative data streams	If selected, Restorer2000 restores alternative data streams for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
Recover security	If selected, Restorer2000 restores security attributes for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
Recover extended attributes	If selected, Restorer2000 restores extended (HPFS) file attributes.
Recover metafiles	If selected, Restorer2000 restores disk metafiles. Metafiles are the file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system data, which Restorer2000 represents as files. These files do not contain user data directly. Unless you want to scrutinize a disk file system, do not restore them.

If a file to be restored appears to have an invalid name, a Broken File Name dialog message will appear. You may correct the name and resume file restoring.

File name	Shows the current incorrect file name.
New name	Field for a new file name.
Edit broken symbols only	If selected, only invalid symbols may be corrected
Change all invalid symbols to	If selected, all invalid symbols will be changed to the specified symbol
Buttons
Rename	Click to resume file restoring
Rename All	Click to resume file restoring. All other files will be renamed according to the specified rule.
Skip	Click to skip this file
Skip All	Click to skip all files and stop file restoring

If a file with the same name exists in the output folder, the File exists dialog message will appear. You may either specify a new file name, overwrite the old file, skip the file, or abort data recovery.