Recover My Files Data Recovery Software 3.40 Online Manual
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License Agreement
- Program Installation
- How do I Activate Recover My Files?
- Introduction & Quick Start Guide
- Step 1 - Select the type of search to perform
- Step 2 - Select the drives and folders to search
- Step 3 - Select the file types to recover
- Step 4 - Running the Search
- Step 5 - Previewing the search results
- Step 6 - Saving files found
- Recover a formatted hard drive
- Support for specific file types
- The Options button
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
- Contact Technical Support
Recover My FilesTM - English V3.98
Recovering From A Formatted Hard Drive
"Fast Format Recover"
If you are trying to recover a formatted hard drive it is always worth trying a "Fast Format Recover" as this search will only take a short time to complete. A Fast Format Recover is usually successful when the partition on a drive has been lost (i.e. Windows no longer displays it as a drive letter or shows it as "unavailable"), but the drive has not been re-formatted. If the Fast Format Recover does not recover files then try the "Complete Format Recover" described below.
"Complete Format Recover"
A Complete Format Recover is used when a partition has been lost and the drive has been reformatted. It will also recover files when Windows has been re-installed, however any of the old partition that has been overwritten by the new Windows installation has been permanently destroyed.
Run Recover My Files and select the “Complete Format Recover” option;
Select the "physical drive" that is the closest match to the size of your entire hard drive;
In the File Type selection screen select no more than 5 file types. Make the file types ones that you know were located on the formatted disk. We recommend ‘.doc’, ‘.xls’, ‘.ppt’, ‘.wav’ & ‘.jpg’ (DO NOT select multimedia files, specifically the MP3 file type, unless these were the only files located on your formatted disk, as this will slow the search down considerably).
The file types that you select in a Format Recover do not have to be the actual files that you wish to recover. The 5 files will be used to identify the full file structure of the formatted drive.
All file types will be found and displayed in the results screen under the folder “Recovered Partition X”. This folder will be created at the end of the search.