Active @ UNDELETE Users Guide | Contents | 2 Contents Legal Statement.........................................................................................................5 Active@ UNDELETE Overview............................................................................. 6 Getting Started with Active@ UNDELETE.......................................................... 7 Active@ UNDELETE Views And Windows...................................................................................................... 7 Recovery Explorer View.......................................................................................................................... 8 Logical Drive Scan Result View..............................................................................................................9 Physical Device Scan View......................................................................................................................9 Search Results View...............................................................................................................................11 File Organizer view................................................................................................................................ 12 Application Log...................................................................................................................................... 13 Welcome View........................................................................................................................................14 Using Active@ UNDELETE Overview................................................................ 16 Recover deleted Files and Folders..................................................................................................................... 17 Scan a volume (logical drive) for deleted files......................................................................................18 Scan for files by their signatures........................................................................................................... 21 Recover files and folders........................................................................................................................23 Virtual RAID Assembly......................................................................................................................... 25 Decrypt recovered files...........................................................................................................................27 Restore Partition..................................................................................................................................................29 Scan Disk (Physical Device)..................................................................................................................29 Scan for Deleted Partitions.....................................................................................................................29 Edit or Clone Detected Partitions...........................................................................................................31 Restore detected partition....................................................................................................................... 31 Using Scan Results.............................................................................................................................................32 Stop and Resume a scan.........................................................................................................................33 Filter detected partitions by certainty.....................................................................................................34 Work with scan results...........................................................................................................................35 File Preview............................................................................................................................................ 36 Search for deleted Files and Folders......................................................................................................37 File Filter Toolbar...................................................................................................................................40 Supported File Signatures...................................................................................................................................40 Custom (user defined) file signature templates......................................................................................41 Custom Signatures Size Script............................................................................................................... 45 How to Use Wildcards....................................................................................................................................... 50 Application Preferences...................................................................................................................................... 51 Virtual storages................................................................................................................................................... 54 Create virtual disk...................................................................................................................................54 Virtual partitions..................................................................................................................................... 55 Virtual RAID.......................................................................................................................................... 58 Active@ UNDELETE Tools Overview.................................................................59 Partition Manager Overview.............................................................................................................................. 59 | Contents | 3 Initialize Disk (Physical Device)............................................................................................................60 Create partition........................................................................................................................................61 Change partition attributes......................................................................................................................62 Format partition...................................................................................................................................... 63 Resize a partition or logical drive (volume).......................................................................................... 63 Edit boot sectors..................................................................................................................................... 64 Edit partition table.................................................................................................................................. 65 Disk Editor Overview.........................................................................................................................................66 Open objects in Disk Editor...................................................................................................................67 Subject Navigation and Information...................................................................................................... 68 Data Inspector......................................................................................................................................... 71 Active Bookmarks.................................................................................................................................. 72 Searching in Disk Editor........................................................................................................................ 73 Working with Disk Editor......................................................................................................................74 Disk Image Overview.........................................................................................................................................80 Create a Disk Image...............................................................................................................................80 Open Disk Image....................................................................................................................................82 File Organizer Overview.................................................................................................................................... 84 Create custom file organizing rule.........................................................................................................85 File renaming patterns by File Type......................................................................................................87 File attributes and meta tags.................................................................................................................. 90 Forensic Report...................................................................................................................................................92 Investigate Volumes................................................................................................................................94 Rollback Partition Changes................................................................................................................................ 96 File