File-Recovery.NET

Scanning a Drive

Before you start data recovery or search for files and folders, drive must be scanned.

There are two types of drive scan: QuickScan and SuperScan

• QuickScan is fast and basic scan type. Most of deleted files and folders would be found.
• SuperScan is much slower and it processes whole drive's surface detecting ALL possible data being deleted.

To perform drive scan run Active@ File Recovery and do one of the following:

1. Click the drive. QuickScan for the drive will start automatically. 
2. Click the drive then click the QuickScan toolbar button or select QuickScan from the context menu to run QuickScan explicitly, for example, to re-scan the drive being scanned previously. 
3. If after QuickScan you did not find your files, try SuperScan by clicking SuperScan toolbar button or selecting SuperScan from the context menu. This type of scan takes much more time to be completed but usually gives better results.
4. To stop (cancel) scanning process, click the Stop toolbar button

After completion of drive scan you can try to locate your files and folders either manually (going through the folders tree) or automatically (using Search mode).

See Also

Performing Device Scan, Searching for Deleted Files and Folders

Back to Contents