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Files and folders recovery

Read the section "Open volume" before recover files or folders for more efficient recovery.

Recover data to another (valid) disk, In this case no changes will be made to the source disk.
Attention! Recover data to another physical device. You may recover to another partition of the same device only if you are sure that partitions don't overlap and device has no physical damages. Do not load system or run program from the partition where data to recover is located.

Maximum file size for FAT volume is 4 or 2 Gb, so save greater files to the volumes with another file systems (e.g., NTFS).

To find removed and lost folders on FAT volume
use menu command Tools→Scan Volume after the volume is opened.

To view removed and lost NTFS files
open the folder "$MFT (all found)".

File groups and folders recovery is supported in the Full Edition. In the Free Edition files recovery for the current panel may be available (include search panel) if there are no more than 4000 files after size is calculated.

Long and national file names in DOS

Without special drivers long files names are not supported under DOS. In this case use option "Substitute long names" in the recovery dialog box. All recovered names will be substituted with numbers and file lrename.bat will be created in the destination folder. To restore original file names load OS Windows, go to the destination folder and execute file lrename.bat. An appropriate OEM code page must be selected when work in DOS in order to restore national symbols correctly. Unicode symbols outside the selected code page will be transliterated or substituted.

Paths longer than 259 symbols under Windows

It is possible to create files and folders which full path length is more than 259 symbols. In order to do this append prefix \\?\ to the destination folder, e.g.: \\?\C:. Such long paths may be inaccessible for standard programs.