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To recover your files from a damaged hard disk is simple nowadays. Let's say that a blackout caused the loss of data. You can't boot from your drive or you can't access it in any way... Simply download <a href="http://www.file-recovery.net/download.htm">Active @ File Recovery for windows</a> and install it. Step By Step ... a simple way 1. <em><strong>Open Active File Recovery</strong></em> 2. <em><strong>Select your drive from the left tree menu</strong></em> 3. <em><strong>Press Quick Scan button (wait for a while to see results)</strong></em> 4. <em><strong>If this try is successfull your entire data or a part of them will be visible on the right pane. The dark colored folders are your deleted or damaged files/folders.</strong></em> 5.<em><strong>To recover press Recover Button and save wherever you want.</strong></em> Step By Step ... a Harder way (for desperate HDDs and Users) In case you have a badly damaged disk Active File Recovery can make a Deep Search by pressing the Super Scan button. 1. <em><strong>Press SuperScan button.</strong></em> <em>This is a deep search remember you'll have to be patient and wait until it's done. Take a nap and forget about it for some hours. The time of scanning procedure depends on your drive's capacity. (Do the math :))</em> 2. <em><strong>When Active File Recovery is done of scanning, Save the scan results by clicking the main scan results folder on the left pane.</strong></em> 3. <em><strong>Then go to file->Save Scan Results... and save it.</strong></em> 4. <em><strong>Go to right pane and sort the results by size</strong></em> (it usually works) 5. <em><strong>Track down the partition name, of the largest partitions that Active File Recovery found, to the left pane.</strong></em> 6. <em><strong>Expand it and check the files there.</strong></em> 7. <em><strong>Select the folder/files and by right clicking on them copy them to a save disk.</strong></em> |
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Some usefull links: <a href="http://www.file-recovery.net/">About Active @ File File Recovery</a> <a href="http://www.file-recovery.net/manual.htm">Documentation concerning some other tasks</a> |