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Partition Recovery - Restore Partition Wizard
ARAX Disk Doctor - Data Recovery software includes Restore Partition Wizard for quick partition recovery to help you to detect and restore deleted or damaged partitions.
The Restore Partition Wizard guides you through three processes:
- Detecting deleted or damaged partitions.
- Analyzing the content of a detected partition and optionally modify its geometry.
- Restoring the partition.
To start partition recovery wizard do one of the following:
- From the Wizards menu, click Restore Partitions
- Select Wizards in the Command Bar and click Restore Deleted Partitions
When the Restore Partition Wizard starts for the first time, the first screen describes the process. Clear the Show this dialog next time? check box to avoid seeing this screen the next time you run this wizard.
To run the partititon recovery wizard, follow the steps below:
- Data Storage Devices. A list of available local devices appears here. You may choose the selected default option - 'Scan all disks' or choose 'Scan selected disks only' to select a physical data storage devices (hard disk drive, USB flash card, etc.) where you suspect a deleted partition is located.
- Click Next for more options or click Scan Devices to start a scan with default scan options.
- Device Scan Options. You can select Use Default Scan Options, or set up your own configuration of device scan options. A description of the custom scan options follows:
- Search for partitions - Specify which type or types of partition (File System) is about to be scanned. Select the Any check box to detect all types of partitions.
- Skip detected partition area - After a partition has been detected, you have the option to keep scanning the detected partition area or to skip to the next sector where the detected partition ends. When this check box is clear, ARAX Disk Doctor scans the detected partition for other lost or corrupted structures and takes more time to perform this task. Select this check box to skip to the next sector and reduce the time to perform this task.
- Scan every sector - Select this check box for the most complete scan of the device. ARAX Disk Doctor scans every device sector for partition signatures.
- Use Low Level Scan – There are two methods of scanning a device. Clear this check box to perform a detailed analysis of data storage structures. Select the check box to take much more time and perform a deeper analysis of the device sectors; the result of this scan recovers damaged areas as accurately as possible
- Ignore all bad sectors – Select this check box to ignore bad (unclear) sectors on the drive. Clear this check box to receive a message each time ARAX Disk Doctor finds a bad sector.
- After all options have been set, click Next.
- Device Scan Area. Define an area to inspect for detection of deleted or damaged partitions.
You can select:
- Scan only unallocated area
- All unallocated areas on the disk will be scanned with this option. All partitioned areas will be skipped. If a partition has been deleted and no other partitions were created on top of it, you need to scan the Unallocated space. This has the effect of narrowing down the scan region by specifying boundaries of the Unallocated region.
- Scan entire disk surface
- Use this option to scan the entire disk, if you are not sure of the location of the lost partition.
- Scan selected area
- This option is available if only one device is selected to scan for deleted partitions. With this option, drag and drop the boundary markers or enter the start and end sectors in the appropriate fields to define a particular region of a disk to scan.
- Click Scan Device to start scanning the disk surface. A progress screen appears. You can click Stop! to stop the process at any time.
- If a partition is found, a message box appears. If the partition parameters look similar to the parameters of a partition that you know to be deleted or damaged, click Yes to accept the partition.
- Detected Partitions - After the scanning process is complete, you can view a list of all partitions found. At this point, you may choose to analyze the content of the partition.
- After the disk scan is complete, all detected partitions found on the scanned surface are displayed. Partition parameters such as file system type, start sector and size are displayed as well.
- If you are not sure whether a particular found partition contains your lost data, close the Restore Partition Wizard and inspect the partition data (files and folders) using Recovery Explorer. You can restore the detected partition in Recovery Explorer by right-clicking the item and selecting Restore from the context menu.
- Confirm Partition Restoration Options Review all the parameters of the detected partition. If you are satisfied with the parameters, click Restore! A progress partition recovery screen appears.
- After the selected partition has been restored, a confirmation message appears. It is advisable to restart Windows to be able to access the partition's data.
Important !
In some cases after restarting, the partition may have been restored successfully, however the drive might not appear in the list of drives in Windows Explorer. In this case, the Windows operating system has not assigned the proper drive letter to the logical drive.
To fix this problem:
- From the Windows Start button, open Control Panel, then double-click Administrative Tools. In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer Management. The Computer Management Console appears.
- In the Storage tree node, click Disk Management.
- Select a proper storage disk (HDD, USB drive, etc.) in the list of storage devices (Disk 0 in the example below). You will see all partitions and logical drives located on the selected storage disk.
- Right-click the restored partition (or logical drive) that has an invalid drive letter. From the context menu click Change Drive Letter and Paths... .
- In the dialog either Add... a new drive letter from the list of available ones, or Change... an existing drive letter.
- After this dialog is closed, your partition should appear in Windows Explorer with the assigned letter. No machine reboot is required in this case.
Now you can easily access your lost data in Windows Explorer.
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