Active @ UNDELETE Users Guide | TOC | 2 Contents Legal Statement..................................................................................................4 Active@ UNDELETE Overview............................................................................. 5 Getting Started with Active@ UNDELETE........................................................... 6 Active@ UNDELETE Views And Windows......................................................................................6 Recovery Explorer View.................................................................................................... 7 Logical Drive Scan Result View.......................................................................................... 7 Physical Device Scan View................................................................................................ 8 Search Results View........................................................................................................10 Application Log...............................................................................................................11 Welcome View................................................................................................................11 Using Active@ UNDELETE Overview................................................................. 13 Recover deleted Files and Folders.............................................................................................. 14 Scan a Volume (Logical Drive) for deleted files..................................................................15 Scan for files by their signatures......................................................................................17 Recover files and folders................................................................................................. 19 Virtual RAID Assembly.................................................................................................... 20 Decrypt recovered files................................................................................................... 21 Restore Partition.......................................................................................................................23 Scan Disk (Physical Device)............................................................................................. 23 Scan for Deleted Partitions.............................................................................................. 23 Edit or Clone Detected Partitions......................................................................................24 Restore detected partition............................................................................................... 25 Using Scan Results................................................................................................................... 26 Stop and Resume a scan.................................................................................................27 Filter detected partitions by certainty............................................................................... 28 Work with scan results....................................................................................................29 File Preview................................................................................................................... 30 Search for deleted Files and Folders.................................................................................31 File Filter Toolbar............................................................................................................33 Supported File Signatures......................................................................................................... 34 Custom (user defined) file signature templates................................................................. 35 Custom Signatures Size Script......................................................................................... 38 How to Use Wildcards...............................................................................................................43 Application Preferences.............................................................................................................44 Active@ UNDELETE Tools Overview..................................................................48 Hardware Diagnostic File...........................................................................................................48 Partition Manager Overview.......................................................................................................48 Initialize Disk (Physical Device)........................................................................................49 Create New Partition.......................................................................................................50 Change Partition Attributes..............................................................................................51 Format Partition..............................................................................................................51 Edit Boot Sectors............................................................................................................52 Edit Partition Table..........................................................................................................53 Create Virtual Partition...................................................................................................54 Disk Editor Tool........................................................................................................................ 54 Open objects in Disk Editor............................................................................................. 55 Subject Navigation and Information................................................................................. 56 Data Inspector............................................................................................................... 57 Using Bookmarks............................................................................................................58 Searching in Disk Editor.................................................................................................. 59 | TOC | 3 Editing with Disk Editor................................................................................................... 60 Rollback Partition Changes........................................................................................................ 66 Disk Image Overview................................................................................................................66 Create a Disk Image....................................................................................................... 67 Open Disk Image............................................................................................................69 Virtual Partition (Logical drive clone)..........................................................................................71 Working with a corrupted RAID system...................................................................................... 72 Active@ UNDELETE Wizards Overview............................................................. 75 Active@ UNDELETE Recovery Wizards Overview......................................................................... 75 Recover Deleted Files Wizard...........................................................................................75 Recover Files by Signature Wizard................................................................................... 77 Recover files from a deleted partitions wizard................................................................... 80 File Recovery Expert Wizard............................................................................................ 82 Restore a Deleted Partition Wizard.............................................................................................82 Create a New Partition Wizard................................................................................................... 84 Create a virtual RAID Array Wizard............................................................................................ 85 Active@ UNDELETE Disk Image Wizards Overview......................................................................87 Create a Disk Image Wizard............................................................................................ 87 Open a Disk Image Wizard..............................................................................................88 Verify a Disk Image Wizard............................................................................................. 90 Data Recovery Concept Overview.................................................................... 93 Hardware and Disk Architecture...................................................................... 94 Hardware and Disk Organization................................................................................................94 Hard Disk Drive Basics.................................................................................................... 94 Master Boot Record (MBR).............................................................................................. 96 Partition Table................................................................................................................ 97 Disk Arrays (RAID's)..............................................................................................................