Data Recovery with Volume Recovery

  1. The module Volume Recovery will reconstruct file systems after more serious damages. Choose the hard disk drive which you want to recover and doubleclick to start the scan. If the partition is clicked only once with the mouse you will receive additional information on the size, file system type and kind of media.
  2. Depending on the size of your storage device and the volume of data this process may take 2 minutes or up to an hour. Example: with a 2 GHz processor and a 350 GB hard disk it takes ca. 90 min., when there is no physical problem.
    In the process window you can see the advance of the complex scan and recovery procedure. The first step is the search for useable information and will take the longest. An estimated time is given next to the bar. The following process steps will be between a few seconds to minutes.

  3. After a scan all recoverable file systems are shown in a file explorer.
    The recovery procedure may find more file systems than you expected. This depends on how often the operating system on this storage device has been reconfigured, and on how many of the old data are still readable.
    Compare the folders and directories to identify the correct or latest file system. You may also use the built in search functions, e.g. the chronological order, to look for folders and files.

  4. Now, go to `Recover -> Preview´ to check the files content or go directly to ´Recover -> Copy´ after selected the files to save them to the new storage device.