Data Rescue 3 User Guide

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome 1.2 What Makes Data Rescue Different? 1.3 Latest Version of the Software 1.4 Contact Prosoft Engineering 1.5 About the Demo 1.6 System Requirements 1.7 General Usage 1.8 Basic Recovery Tips 1.9 Drives With Suspected Hardware Problems 1.9.1 If your drive is not visible in Data Rescue 2 Installing and Starting Data Rescue 2.1 Install/Uninstall Data Rescue 2.2 Before you start Data Rescue 2.2.1 Note on Data Rescue's Workspace 2.3 Starting Data Rescue 2.3.1 Selecting the Home Folder on the Boot DVD 3 Using Data Rescue 3.1 Welcome to Data Rescue 3.2 Step 1: Selecting a Drive or Volume to Scan 3.3 Step 2: Choose a Task 3.3.1 Canceling a Scan 3.4 Step 3: Find and Mark Files 3.4.1 Previewing Files 3.4.2 Searching the Scan Results 3.4.3 Recovering Files 4 Tasks 4.1 Quick Scan 4.2 Deep Scan 4.3 Deleted Files Scan 4.4 Clone 4.5 FileIQ 4.5.1 FileIQ Advanced Options 4.5.2 FileIQ Troubleshooting 5 Manage Scans 5.1 Resuming Suspending Scans 5.2 Saving Scans 5.3 Importing Scans 5.4 Deleting Previous Scans 5.5 Reviewing Previous Scan Results 6 Drive Failure Detection 7 Preferences 7.1 General 7.2 Preview 7.3 Scan Engine 7.3.1 Cloning Preferences 7.3.2 File Modules 7.3.2.1 Top Level File Modules Preferences 7.3.2.2 Category Level Preferences 7.3.2.3 File Module Preferences 7.4 Recovery Preferences 7.5 Scanning Preferences 8 Expert Features 8.1 Expert Preferences 8.2 Expert Menu 8.2.1 Allocation Blocks Layout 8.2.2 Choose Drive/Volume for Scan 8.2.3 Show Details 8.2.4 Block Level Tools 8.2.5 Add File to Scan 8.2.6 Set Drive/Volume Parameters 8.2.7 Add RAID Set 8.2.8 Erase Drive/Volume 9 Frequently Asked Questions 10 Glossary 11 Supported File Types 12 Release Notes 13 Credits Table of Contents Installing and Starting Data Rescue 1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome Thank you for using Data Rescue 3. Prosoft Engineering’s Data Rescue is an easy-to-use utility to help you recover files and folders from crashed or corrupted hard drives, floppy disks, or removable cartridges. Recovered data is saved to another medium, leaving the original disk untouched. 1.2 What Makes Data Rescue Different? The main objective of Data Rescue is that the strategy for finding lost files is different and better from the strategies used by other tools. Not only will it find your data in situations where other tools fail, but it will also recover them in a much bett…