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7.2 Acronis Recovery Expert
Acronis Recovery Expert is an easy-to use tool that lets you recover volumes on a basic MBR disk that
were accidentally deleted or damaged due a hardware or software failure.
In case your volumes are damaged and the machine fails to boot—for example, after a power outage
or a system error—use the bootable version of Acronis Disk Director and run Acronis Recovery
Expert. It will help you to recover boot sectors and partition tables on hard disks and make your
system bootable again.
The Recovery Expert first attempts to recover volumes "as is", i.e. logical volumes will be recovered
as logical and primary as primary respectively. If the primary volume cannot be recovered as is, it will
be recovered as logical. Also, if the logical volume cannot be recovered as is, it will be recovered as
primary.
To run Acronis Recovery Expert
Select Tools > Acronis Recovery Expert from the top menu.
Recovering volumes in automatic mode
The automatic mode is easy to use and requires minimal effort. The program will try to find and
recover all the deleted volumes on all basic disks.
1. In the Recovery mode window, choose Automatic.
2. In the Searching for deleted volumes window, Acronis Recovery Expert scans all the basic disks
for deleted volumes. First, Acronis Recovery Expert checks your disks for unallocated space. If
there is no unallocated space, you will be asked to close the Recovery Expert. If unallocated
space is found, then the Recovery Expert starts searching for traces of deleted volumes.
The Recovery Expert checks the beginning of each side of every cylinder of every disk for boot
sectors. A boot sector is the first sector of a volume that contains information about this volume,
even after its deletion. Once a deleted volume is found, it will be displayed in the volume list. The
search will, however, continue until all the remaining disks are scanned. Only after the search is
completed, the Next button becomes enabled, and you can proceed to the next window.
Note: you cannot select volumes to recover in the automatic mode. Acronis Recovery Expert will recover all
the discovered deleted volumes.