Searching deleted files

With Recover4all® Professional anyone can recover deleted files with a few mouseclicks. In the first step you search for deleted files and in the second step you recover them.

To search for deleted files you do the following:

1. Let Recover4all® Professional scan the drive where the files were deleted. For example, if you want to find deleted files on drive C:, you would click "Scan drive C:" in the "Search" menu:
   
   
   Alternatively, you can double click the drive icon :
   
   
   or click on :
   
   
   
2. Recover4all® will start to search for deleted files. The displayed progress bar indicates how the scan moves forward:
   
   
   
   
3. When the scan has finished, folders can be opened with a double click. Deleted files will be displayed in the right pane:
   
   
   
4. If you scanned a drive with the FAT file system, the following message box will appear as soon as the first scan has completed and before a second scan starts:
   While the program is now searching for more deleted files, you can already browse and recover the deleted files that have been found before. Until the scan has completed you may find that the program is responding slower, but this advanced feature enables you to continue working while Recover4all® is still searching files. This second scan can take hours on large drives. Files that are found in the second scan will be put in blue directories . Though those files have completely lost their connection to the intact file system, their recovery chances correspond to the chances of files that were found in the first scan.

   Recover4all® employs the following symbols:

   Deleted file.

   Deleted directory.

   Normal directory.

   Deleted directory which was found in the second scan.

   The next section Undeleting files explains how the listed files can be recovered.