Operation Manual

If the search is completed with no result, you will be asked to either perform the search using the

Complete method, or to finish searching and close the application. With the complete method,

the program scans each sector on every hard disk. It is more thorough and may take a long time

to perform. If there are no volumes found with the complete method, you will be asked to close

the Recovery Expert.

3. The Recovered Volumes window displays the volumes to recover as a part of the hard disk

volume structure. Make sure that all the required volumes are properly placed in the hard disk

structure, and then click Next.

4. Click Proceed to start recovering the volumes.

Recovering volumes in manual mode

The manual recovery mode lets you take full advantage of the volume recovery. You will be able to

specify the searching method, disks to search on, and volumes to recover.

1. In the Recovery mode window, choose Manual.

2. In the Unallocated Space Selection window, select unallocated space on basic disks where the

deleted volumes used to be located. If you are not sure about the location of the deleted

volumes, select all the unallocated spaces on all the basic disks.

3. In the Searching Method window, choose:

 Fast – (recommended) checks the beginning of each side of every cylinder of the selected

disks. It takes less time, and should find all deleted volumes in most cases.

 Complete – checks every sector on the selected disks for file system. It is more thorough and

requires much more time to perform than the Fast method.

4. In the Searching for deleted volumes window, Acronis Recovery Expert scans all the selected

hard disk drives for deleted volumes. 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. If no

volumes are found, you will be asked to close the Recovery Expert.

The program can even find and display intersected volumes, that is, volumes that were created

and deleted on the disk at different times. Moreover, every successive volume allocates space

from the previously deleted volume, but not at the beginning of it. Only one of the intersected

volumes can be recovered.

Unlike the automatic recovery mode, you do not have to wait until the whole search is finished

using the manual mode. As soon as a located volume or multiple volumes are added to the list,

you can select them for immediate recovery. Selecting a volume changes its status to Undeleted

and enables the Next button.

5. The Recovered Volumes window displays the volumes to recover as a part of the hard disk

volume structure, marking them with an icon in the upper right corner of its rectangle. Make

certain that all the selected volumes are properly placed in the hard disk structure, and then click

Next.

6. Click Proceed to start recovering the volumes.

7.3 Acronis Disk Editor

Acronis Disk Editor is a professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a hard disk: with it, you

can restore boot records, repair files and folder structure, find lost clusters, remove computer virus

code from a disk and much more. This program has much to offer to a computer novice as well. For

example, it can be used as an educational tool.

Working with Acronis Disk Editor requires a thorough understanding of the hard disk structure, file

systems, operating systems, partitioning schemes and principles of data storage organization.