User Guide

The very first start

If you are trying to recover data from a removable media, you need to have the media in the drive before running URGENTRECOVERY. Before running the program under Windows NT-based environment, make sure that you have administrator privilege.

Once the program is loaded, you may choose your language. Afterwards a wizard appears leading you through the recovery process. This guide will explain an advanced, manual recovery procedure to you. Hence you can close the wizard and select Open Drive from the button bar.

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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!
  The drives of your computer will be detected. If the scanning window will not disappear after a certain time, a complete lookup causes your computer to crash because one drive may be incompatible with the software and you can omit it by restarting the software and selecting Options from Object menu.
The appearing window will display a list of all accessible drives found on both Windows logical drives and physical drives in your system. If your drive is listed under 'Logical drive', select your drive which contains the deleted files or directories.
If the drive containing the deleted files your are looking for is not listed, this is a sign of more severe corruption and you may need to proceed with the next step Finding an existing or lost drive.*

If the drive your are looking for is listed, but the filesystem format is wrong, you should select it and click 'Full scan/ find format'.*

 

   
    NOTE: If you select a drive that uses the FAT system, you can choose the FAT number to be used for the program (used for accessing directories) if you click on 'Scan options -> Drive Access'. In most cases the option "FAT 1" is correct.
   
Select 'no FAT' if you accidentally reformatted your drive. Select 'FAT 2' if you know that your first FAT is damaged.

For more information on recovering files on a specific file system refer to File System Issues.

After selecting 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 user interface appears. Proceed with section user interface.
             
             
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