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Finding an existing or lost drive

If your drive is not listed under 'Logical drive', URGENTRECOVERY must search for your lost drive. The following sequentially (sector-by-sector) search process can be adjusted to accelerate processing speed and to reduce memory usage. Please notice that it is very recommended on computers with low memory ( < 192 MB) to switch off all of the following options that are not needed. The search options can be accessed if you click on Scan options. If you keep the default options, the maximum possible data will be found, but the search will require more time to complete. These are the options for the drive scan process:
 

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URGENTRECOVERY® Professional
allows data recovery from:

    
  Lost or Deleted Partitions
Accidental or Malicious Formats
Installations Gone Wrong
Virus Attacks- Deletions
Local or over a network
Virtually Any Logical Disk Disaster
...Will support RAID as well!		    
Find FAT drive data
      If enabled, FAT drive data information including files and directories will be found. This is the prefered method if the drive's boot sector or other important drive information is damaged.
Found drives of this type are named as "rebuilt" in the logical drive list.
Find NTFS drive data
If enabled, NTFS drive data information including files and directories will be found. This is the prefered method if the drive's boot sector or other important drive information is is damaged.
Found drives of this type are named as "rebuilt" in the logical drive list.
Find lost files (raw data)


If enabled, lost files will be searched by a file signature search algorithm. This is the prefered method if your drive is severe corrupted and no directory or file information is found. This is a last resort in recovering data from a severely corrupted drive.

This option will typically recover small files that are stored in one cluster or larger files stored in consecutive clusters on the disk. The lower your drive is fragmented, the more effective the result will be.
The size of these files can not always be determined properly. Therefore the signature search algorithm has a maximum file size. If you need to recover large files (i.e. videos or bigger database file) you should set this size to their estimated size.
If you check 'Find Office files in .MOF Lost files', URGENTRECOVERY tries to recognize the extension of recovered files using the OLE Storage format (used by all Microsoft Office files and many other third party vendors).
By checking 'Find MPEG audio (MP3) in Full Scan' the signature search algorithm additionally searches for MP3-files. Analogous 'Find MPEG video+audio (MPEG1/2) in Full Scan' the MPEG1/2 video format, mainly used on DVD-/VCD-/SVCD-media, will be detected.

If drives of this type were found, they are named as "RawFS" in the logical drive list.

For more information on recovering lost files refer to File System Issues.

Before starting the search select a physical drive under tab sheet 'Physical drive' which contains your lost drive. After selecting Quickscan the following window will appear.

    This dialog window allows you to delimit the search. In most cases the default setting can be retained. Click on OK to start the search.

After the search has completed (or canceled by the user), the additional found drives will be listed under 'Logical drive' and marked as . Depending on the extent of the disk corruption there can be found the following drive types:

Drives with lost boot sector (marked as "lost")

If the drive your are looking for is still not listed you should repeat the previous step by clicking 'Full scan/ find format'. After completion of the scan, additional drives of the following type can be found:

Drives without boot sector (marked as "without BootSec")

Drives without boot sector that were rebuilt in memory with files and directories found during search (marked as "rebuilt")
Drives without any drive information (marked as "RawFS")
For more information on recovering lost files refer to File System Issues.

This list ist sorted from a very good resulting recovery to a less good resulting recovery. Select your drive and click on OK. The drive will be searched for deleted files and directories (only if the selected drive uses NTFS system). After the search is complete the following user interface appears.
                         
               
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