Data Recovery - Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best way to find my deleted data after Drive Scan completes?
Question: What is a Disk Image? Why is it needed?
Answer: A Disk Image is a mirror of your logical drive or physical device
that is stored in one large file. A Disk Image file can be useful
when you want to back up the contents of the whole drive, and
restore it or work with it later.
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Before you start recovering deleted files, it may be a good idea to create a Disk Image for the entire drive, if you have enough space on another drive. The reason for doing this is for insurance. If you do something wrong while recovering the files (for example, recovering files onto the same drive they came from), you will be able to recover these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that you have wisely created.
Active@ UNDELETE provides extensive functionality to recover files from a Disk Image. You can create an image of a logical drive, a device or a partition. Save the disk image as one large file or split the image into chunks the size you prefer for later use.
When creating a Disk Image, it stores in at least two files: one is the Configuration file and the second is the actual image body file. If you decide to save a disk image split into chunks then the image body files can be as many in number as is required to save all the data.
In the example below, we create a hard drive Disk Image sized 7.84 Gb with options to split it into 1Gb chunks. Below is the list of files created:
MyImage.dim - Local Drive Image configuration file MyImage.000 1,441 Kb- First chunk of image body MyImage.001 1,441 Kb- Second chunk of image body MyImage.002 1,071 Kb- Last chunk of image body
