User manual ONTRACK EASYRECOVERY SOFTWARE

[. . . ] Ontrack® EasyRecoveryTM User's Guide Notice to Users Ontrack® EasyRecoveryTM software has been developed, licensed and copyrighted by Kroll Ontrack Inc. Use of the software is governed by the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement contained within the software. This manual should not be construed as any representation or warranty with respect to the software named herein. Occasionally, changes or variations exist in the software that is not reflected in the manual. [. . . ] A typical end user will many times have difficulty in adding a hard drive to their system because they don't have direct access to jumper settings for hard drives. DATA RECOVERY The Data Recovery category includes a collection of recovery tools, which target recovery of file data. The Data Recovery tools will recover files from corrupted FAT and NTFS partitions. The tools are designed to recover and copy your data to another destination such as a removable drive, another hard drive, a floppy diskette, or a network volume. Each tool is a fully automated wizard, which walks the user through three simple steps: 1. Evaluate: The tool identifies all devices and/or partitions on the system and displays a graphical representation of what was found 2. Recover: The tool examines the file structures that remain on the corrupted partition and constructs a virtual file system in memory. Page 12 Chapter 3: Ontrack EasyRecovery Categories 3. Tag and Copy: A list of files is graphically presented to you with a "Windows Explorer like" look and feel. You then have the ability to filter select files and folders for copy to a safe location. The data recovery tools available are listed below. DeletedRecovery FormatRecovery RawRecovery ResumeRecovery StandardRecovery AdvancedRecovery Emergency Media This is an example; the category and tools you have installed may be different from the example. Page 13 Chapter 3: Ontrack EasyRecovery Categories Mistakenly deleting files is one of the most common data recovery scenarios. The DeletedRecovery tool will give you quick access to deleted files, and has different options for scanning a partition. You can perform a quick scan, or a thorough complete scan for deleted files. You also have the option to enter a File Filter string, either with or without using 'wildcards', to quickly recover files of a specific name. Another common data recovery situation is accidental reformatting of a partition. The FormatRecovery tool will allow you to recover files from an accidentally formatted or reinstalled partition. This type of recovery will ignore the existing file system structures and try to search for structures associated with the previous file system. The RawRecovery tool allows you to scan severely corrupted partitions for files using a file signature search algorithm. This tool will help you recover files from a partition with damaged directory structures. Over 290 popular file signatures are available for scanning for your file data in this tool. The number of file signatures available for scanning will depend on which Ontrack EasyRecovery edition you have installed. For the most difficult recoveries, the AdvancedRecovery and StandardRecovery tools provide you with advanced recovery options including recovering from mistakenly deleted partitions, virus attacks, and other major file system corruptions. Both tools give you a detailed graphical representation of the devices connected to your system including partitions associated with each device. Which tool you have installed is dependent on the edition of Ontrack EasyRecovery purchased. The Data Recovery category also includes the EmergencyMedia tool that can create an emergency boot diskette or an emergency boot CD-ROM. The diskette and CD-ROM allow you to recover data from a partition even if you cannot boot to Windows. [. . . ] See tool-specific Help files for more details. Email Repair has two components: Outlook Repair repairs Microsoft Outlook files. OutlookExpress Repair repairs Microsoft Outlook Express files. Kroll Ontrack is continually developing e-mail recovery tools for other e-mail formats. For a listing of the latest e-mail file formats supported and detailed tool information, check www. ontrackdatarecovery. com. Page 18 Below is a brief description of the current File Repair tools available: Outlook Repair repairs and restores Microsoft Outlook files that were created using Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007. You can use this tool to recover and restore corrupt Personal Folder Files (PST), corrupt Offline Folder Files (OST), deleted messages, and password protected files. [. . . ]