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Note: If you have done all these operations listed below, but still cannot find your lost files, you need to perform an exhaustive search for the files on the logical disk.
| Select the logical disk on the R-Undelete Step1. Select disk and click the Next button, |
or double-click the disk.
 | | Step1. Select disk panel |
You may start data recovery with R-Undelete directly from Windows Explorer.
Right-click the disk in Windows Explorer and select Find recently deleted files with R-Undelete on the shortcut menu
If you try to start R-Undelete under an account without administrative rights, an message will appear. To enable R-Undelete to recover the data, select Logon on the message and enter a User Name and Password of a user with administrative privileges on the following dialog box.
| ‚ | Select Fast search for recently deleted files on the Step 2. Select action panel and click the Next button |
 | | Step 2. Select action panel |
| Ü | R-Undelete will change its panel showing the disk's folders/files structure |
R-Undelete analyzes data on the disk and displays all files which records have been found. Then deleted files, which records still remain, can be recovered. If files have not been found, that means that their records have been deleted. To find such files, Exhaustive Search is required.
Please note that R-Undelete shows only those files/folders that match a specified .
 Step 3. Select files for recovery panel
Click the panel regions to learn their functions.
To reach the View menu, click the R-Undelete top left corner, and select Advanced on the menu.
You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable. To enable/disable
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The panel
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Select/clear Folders View on the View menu
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The panel
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Select/clear Contents View on the View menu
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The panel
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Select/clear Find Results View on the View menu
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You may select how the data the will be graphically represented in the panel. To view the data as:
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Large icons
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Select Large Icons on the View menu
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Small icons
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Select Small Icons on the View menu
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List
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Select List on the View menu
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Details
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Select Details on the View menu
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You may also arrange the data as required. Select the on the Mark files for recovery panel, or on the View menu, select Arrange and them a required arrangement.
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You may also select to show/disable various warnings and confirmation. Select on the Help menu
Show All Hints
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to show all warning messages for which the Never show again check box has been selected.
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Disable All Hints
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to never show any warning messages in which the Never show again check box exists.
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To reach the Help menu, click the R-Undelete top left corner.
| ƒ | Select file(s)/folder(s) to recover and click the Next button |
Mark a file/folder to recover by clicking the box left to the object, or select Mark on the shortcut menu. You may mark several files/folders in different parent folders. You may mark all objects in the folder by selecting Mark All on the shortcut or Tools menu. To unmark an object, click the box left to the object once more or select Unmark on the shortcut menu. You may unmark all objects in the folder by selecting Unmark All on the shortcut or Tools menu.
To reach the Tools menu, click the R-Undelete top left corner, and select Advanced on the menu.
R-Undelete can search for a particular file. Go to the Searching for a File topic for details.
File content may be previewed before recovery. Go to the Previewing Files topic for details.
If you do not find files that you want to recover:
If you do not find files that you want to recover but are sure they have existed on the logical disk, you need to use Exhaustive Search to find them.
| „ | Specify recover options and output folder on the Step 4. Select place for recovered files panel and click the OK button |
 | | Step 4. Select place for recovered files panel |
Recover options
Recover the entire path to the file object:
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers the entire path to the selected object.
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Restore path from the root folder
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers the entire path to the selected object starting from the root folder of the disk.
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Recover real folders structure
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Enabled when the files are sorted by their extensions or date. If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers the real folders/files structure on the disk rather than that of sorted files.
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Recover all content of a selected folder, ignoring specified file mask:
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers all content of selected folder(s), ignoring specified .
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Recover alternative data streams:
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers alternative data streams for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
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Recover security attributes:
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers security attributes for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
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Recover extended attributes:
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers extended (HPFS) file attributes.
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Do not recover hidden and system attributes
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete will remove the Hidden and System attributes from recovered files enabling the user to see them in the Windows Explorer.
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Recover disk metafiles
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If this check box is selected, R-Undelete recovers disk metafiles. Metafiles are the file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system data, which R-Undelete represents as files. These files do not contain user data directly. Unless you want to scrutinize a disk file system, do not restore them.
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Bad Sectors Options
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You may specify how to process files with bad sectors. You may specify the number of attempts to read the bad sectors and a patter to fill the bad block.
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If you try to specify the same disk for the recovered files on which the deleted files resided, the message will appear. You may continue recovering the files on such disk, but at your own risk.
| Ü | R-Undelete will recover the selected/marked files/folders to the specified folder |
The Step 5. Recovery status panel will show the results.
If there is/are file(s) with the same name in the output folder, the File already exists dialog box will appear. You may overwrite, rename, or skip the file, or abort recovering.
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If a file to be recovered appears to have an invalid name, a Broken File Name dialog box will appear. You may correct the name and resume file recovery.
 | | Broken File Name dialog box |
Broken File Name properties
File name
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Shows the current incorrect file name.
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New name
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Field for a new file name.
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Edit broken symbols only
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If this check box is selected, only invalid symbols may be corrected
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Change all invalid symbols to
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If this check box is selected, all invalid symbols will be changed to the specified symbol
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Buttons
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Rename
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Click to resume file recovery
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Rename All
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Click to resume file recovery. All other files will be renamed according to the specified rule.
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Skip
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Click to skip this file
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Skip All
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Click to skip all files and stop file recovery
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 | | Step 5. Recovery status panel |
Click the Finish button to return to the Select the disk to recover files from panel or Exit to quit R-Undelete.
Searching for a File
Regular Expressions
Previewing Files
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