User's Guide for DOS

User Guide for Active@ UNERASER DOS:

1.4 Steps to UNERASE Files and Folders

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These are the steps:

1. If you can see all drive partitions and logical drives, perform a drive scan. [Performing a Drive Scan].
2. If you know there is a device or drive partition missing, perform a device scan first, then perform step number 1, above. [Performing a Device Scan]
3. After scanning the drive, search for deleted files and folders. [Searching for Deleted Files and Folders]
4. After finding files and folders to recover, UNERASE deleted files and folders. [Unerasing a Deleted File]

User's Guide content

1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW
   1. Restoring Deleted Data
   2. Files Erased
   3. Partition Damage
   4. Steps to unerase Files and Folders
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3. USING Active@ UNERASER CONSOLE
   1. Starting Active@ UNERASER DOS console
   2. Starting Active@ UNERASER Windows console
   3. Command Bar Menu
   4. Performing a Drive Scan
   5. Performing a Device Scan
   6. Searching for Deleted Files and Folders
   7. Searching for Files by Name
   8. Using Hex/Text Viewer
   9. Unerasing a Deleted File
   10. Unerasing a Deleted Folder
   11. Creating a Disk Image
   12. Steps to create a Disk Image
   13. Checking Disk Image
   14. Working with Disk Image
   15. Long File Names Support
   16. Recovering Files with Long Names
4. DATA RECOVERY TIPS
   1. Treat Recovery Area With Care
   2. Save Recovered Files Onto a Different Drive
   3. Load UNERASER to a Floppy
   4. Dealing With the "Unknown"
5. PREPARING TO USE THE UTILITY
   1. Preparing a DOS-Bootable Floppy Disk
   2. Preparing a Bootable ISO CD-ROM Image
6. USING COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
   1. Overview of Command Line Parameters
7. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
   • How to undelete files on NTFS
   • How to recover deleted files on a FAT32 volume
   • How to recover a deleted folder containing files and subfolders
   • How to check recoverability of a deleted file or folder
   • How to use Active@ UNERASER for Disk Image creation
   • How to scan and recover files if a partition exists but appears to be damaged
   • How to force LBA mode to access larger drives (more than 8GB in size)
   • How to see localized characters in file names
   • How to backup and restore MBR, Partition Table and Boot Sectors
   • How to recover files and folders on a partition that has been deleted
   • How to prevent Master Boot Record (MBR) corruption
   • How to recover files and folders from formatted or reformatted hard drive?
   • How to read and copy existing files from NTFS to FAT partition?
   • How to restore lost hard drive partition
8. HOW TO...
   • Scan Drive
   • Perform Device Scan
   • Search for deleted files and folders
   • Use Hex/Text Viewer
   • Unerase deleted file
   • Unerase deleted folder
   • Create Disk Image
   • Open and Work with Disk Image
   • Virtually Restoring MBR and Partition Table
   • Dealing With the "Unknown"