User's Guide
Recovery Tips
DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ONTO THE DRIVE
CONTAINING YOUR IMPORTANT DATA THAT YOU HAVE JUST DELETED ACCIDENTALLY!
Even data recovery software installation could spoil your sensitive
data. If the data is really important to you, and you do not have
another logical drive to install software to, take whole hard drive out
of the computer and plug into another computer where data recovery
software has been already installed.
DO NOT SAVE ONTO THE SAME DRIVE DATA THAT
YOU FOUND AND TRYING TO RECOVER!
While saving
recovered data onto the same drive where sensitive data was located, you
can intrude in process of recovering by overwriting table records for
this and other deleted entries. It's better to save data onto another
logical, removable, network or floppy drive.
CREATE DISK IMAGE IF YOU HAVE EXTRA HARD
DRIVE, OR OTHER LOGICAL DRIVES ARE BIG ENOUGH!
Disk
Image is a mirror of your logical drive that is stored in one file. This
can be useful when you want to backup the contents of the whole drive,
and restore it or work with it later. Before you start recovering the
deleted files, it may be a good idea to create a Disk Image for this
drive, if you have enough space at another drive. Why? Because if you do
something wrong while recovering the files (for example, recovering them
onto the same drive could destroy their contents), you still will be
able to recover these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that
you have wisely created.
