Data Recovery Examples
Lost Partition Table
Should the partition table be missing or corrupted, try the following:
Use the search function to search for a
boot record. Just call the search window, push the Partition/Boot record button
and click OK. If the program finds a valid boot record you can start to
explore your drive from there. Double-clicking the boot record area or following
the default link should bring you to the MFT of the
drive, or click Goto->Root directory to go to the root
directory.
Lost Boot Record
If the boot record of your drive is lost - for example, after you have run
Fdisk - try the following:
Choose Tools->Create virtual volume. This advanced data recovery feature will try to reconstruct the boot sector
in memory.
If successful you will be able to navigate through the file system and
view and
save files.
Press Start. After a while of searching you will eventually get a message, which asks you to confirm the possible cluster size and file system start sector. If these values sound reasonable press OK, else Retry.
If the creation of the virtual volume was successful, you will get a message accordingly.
Press Close now and try to navigate through your drive by choosing Goto->Root directory or Goto->MFT etc.
Find current file
Wherever you are on your drive, Runtime's
DiskExplorer lets you determine to which file the current cluster belongs to.
Set the cursor to the data area you are interested in, then click Tools->Find current file. If the cluster is associated with a file, after a while of searching a window will display the MFT number of the file, the file name and the attribute the data belongs to.
To go to the file entry just click Go there in this window.