Data Recovery Issues
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Data Recovery Issues |
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NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS TO THE SAME LOGICAL DISK WHERE THEY RESIDE!!! Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all of your data. R-Undelete writes directly to a hard drive only when writing recovered data and from its hex editor, if writing is enabled. In all other actions, R-Undelete only reads data and analyzes them, and never modifies data on the hard drives being analyzed. Most operating systems use lazy-write. So, there is a time lag between file actions and actual changes on data on a hard drive. R-Undelete analyzes data on hard drives only. That is why it does not always detect recent changes in data structure. Most operating systems constantly write their service information on hard drives. Such writing is especially intensive during start-up and shut-down procedures. When an operating system deletes a file/folder, it treats the space where it has resided as empty and may write something in this place. If this happened, the file/folder and its parameters may be detected correctly, but its data may be lost. Folder names like $$$Folder58448 on NTFS partitions mean that the folder has not been found on the drive but some references to it have been. For example, folders My documents, Work, Photos have been found and all they have one parent folder, whose description has not actually been found on the disk, so its name is unknown and therefore represented as $$$Folder58448. It may happen that the description of such folders was outside of the search area, so try to enlarge the region or search the entire hard drive. If that does not help, most likely that the description of the folder has been overwritten. Folder names like $ROOT58448 on FAT partitions mean that some folders have been found, but they cannot be included into the folder structure for this FAT partition. Sometimes, such folders may contain other folder structures. If you recover a file, and it appears that the file contains wrong data, try to perform exhaustive search for the files on the disk Often R-Undelete finds several FAT folder records that contain the same data. Such folders are called cross-linked. R-Undelete marks such folders with an arrow mark: R-Undelete attributes the content of cross-linked folders to one folder called a target folder. When recovering, R-Undelete places the content to the target folder. To view the list of cross-linked folders,
You may go to any folder in this list by clicking it. To find a target folder,
If Go Target is gray, this folder is already the target folder. To set the target folder manually,
If Set As Default Target is gray, this folder is already the target folder. Sometimes, R-Undelete may find FAT records, which look like folders, but their content is invalid. For example, file names have invalid characters, date, time, and size, or other file attributes may look strange. Please note that R-Undelete correctly recognizes localized names. R-Undelete treats such records as folders, but does not analyze their content and structure. You can manually search such folders, but results may be unpredictable. Usually, such search reveals garbage. R-Undelete marks such folders with a question mark. To re-search an object,
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