Disk Scan

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In order to completely analyze data structure on an object, it must be scanned. Any object on the Device/Disk panel can be scanned. In addition, you may create a region to scan only a part of an object. The Regions section explains how to create and work with regions.

You may select scan area and some other scan parameters. Scan information may be saved to a file and later this file may be opened.

Attention: Scanning large areas may be a very lengthy process!

NEVER TRY TO SAVE SCAN INFORMATION ON THE OBJECT BEING SCANNED!!!

Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.

To scan an object

Select an object on the Restorer2000's Device/Disk panel.
‚Click the Scan button

Other ways to start scan

ƒSpecify the required parameters on the Scan dialog message and click the Scan button

Scan options

ÜRestorer2000 will start scanning the object showing its progress.

Scan may be stopped by clicking the Stop button on the toolbar. When the scan is completed, the Scan completed successfully message will appear.

When an object is scanned, a number of recognized partitions will appear. Restorer2000 shows them in different colors depending on which elements of the partition have been found.

Both boot records and file entries are found for this partition

Only file entries are found for this partition

Only boot records are found for this partition

Although such recognized partitions are virtual objects, files can be searched for and restored from recognized partitions as from real logical disks using Basic File Recovery. To see a file/folder structure on a newly found object, simply click it on the right pane. As an example, see the information about the object FAT32_0001 found on the logical disk G:.

Managing scan information

Scan information may be saved to a file. Previously saved scan information may be loaded.

To save scan information

Select an object on the Restorer2000's Device/Disk panel
‚Select Save Recognized Partition Layout in the Drive or context menu and save the scan information in a Recognized partition layout file

The default file extension is *.dpl.

To load scan information

Select an object on the Restorer2000's Device/Disk panel
‚Select Open Recognized Partition Layout in the Drive or context menu and select the required Recognized partition layout file

The default file extension is *.dpl.

ÜThe scan information will appear in the right panel

To delete scan information

Select an object on the Restorer2000's Device/Disk panel
‚Select Delete Recognized Partition Layout in the Drive or context menu
ÜThe scan information will disappear from the right panel

Lost Files (Available in Restorer2000 Pro and Restorer2000 Pro Network)

While scanning, Restorer2000 can recognize a particular file type to which the data belong. Using such information, Restorer2000 can obtain more information about data/file structure on the object being scanned. Such files appear on the recognized partitions in the Lost Files folder.

By default, Restorer2000 tries to recognize all supported file types, greatly increasing time required for the scan. You may reduce it by selecting only those file types that you need on the Specific documents tab. Select Options in the Tools menu to reach this tab

List of specific documents