User manual AVIRA UNERASE PERSONAL

[. . . ] 9 4. 1 4. 2 5 5. 1 5. 2 5. 3 6 6. 1 6. 2 6. 3 7 7. 1 7. 2 7. 3 General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Avira GmbH Avira UnErase Personal 3 Introduction 1 Introduction We have included all useful information about Avira UnErase Personal in this manual and you will be guided step by step through the installation, configuration and operation of the software. [. . . ] Copy all files from the installation directory on a floppy disk or CD-ROM. In order to prevent overwriting files when restoring them, they should always be restored on a different drive to their original location (e. g. another partition, removable storage device). · Avira GmbH Avira UnErase Personal 9 Installation and deinstallation 4. 1. 2 Performing the installation If all prerequisites are fulfilled, you can install Avira UnErase on your computer. Proceed as follows: Start the installation by double-clicking the file unerase_en_h. exe. Confirm that you will use Avira UnErase only for private and not for commercial purposes and click on Next. Confirm where appropriate and then click on Finish. 10 Avira UnErase Personal Avira GmbH Installation and deinstallation 4. 2 Deinstallation This is how you can deinstall Avira UnErase (for example, on Windows XP): Correct deinstallation can only be performed as administrator! From the Windows Start menu, open the Control Panel. After deinstallation, the entry is removed from the list of installed software. Avira GmbH Avira UnErase Personal 11 General information 5 General information Here you can find information about: · · · See Chapter: Testing Avira UnErase See Chapter: Golden rules See Chapter: Details about FAT and FAT32 5. 1 Testing Avira UnErase It may happen that Avira UnErase does not display data deleted a few seconds previously. When you copy and then directly delete files or empty the Recycle Bin then start Avira UnErase immediately to test it, these files are not listed in Avira UnErase because they have not been properly written on the hard disk. Windows file systems need a few minutes at most to write files on the hard disk. In order to be sure that files have actually been written on the hard disk, when testing UnErase you should either restart the computer before deleting the files or run CHKDSK. Only then can you be sure that the files have been saved on the hard disk and that Avira UnErase can find them. 5. 2 Golden rules We have prepared this list of tips to make your file recovery even easier. Zudem erhalten zum besseren Verständnis eine Erklärung, wie das Löschen and of the recovery procedure is included. Basically however, there is a "list of contents", which refers to various sectors and clusters on the hard disk. When deleting a file, you do not actually delete the sectors of the hard disk, but the entry in this "list of contents" and thus you mark the sectors allocated to that file as available for the following write operations. You can restore a file as long as these sectors were not actually overwritten, meaning that the content of the sectors can be restored. If possible, stop all write operations on the drives from which you want to recover the files. Every write operation could overwrite relevant sectors from which you need to recover data. Start from Windows Start menu In Windows Start menu, open the Programs sub-menu. A dialog window opens. 14 Avira UnErase Personal Avira GmbH Operation Select the drive from which you want to recover the data. In the case of FAT file systems, after selecting the drive, you can also select the folder containing the deleted files to be recovered. 6. 2 Main window of Avira UnErase Avira GmbH Avira UnErase Personal 15 Operation Explanation File Name Size (kB) Create Time Last Access Time Estimated Status Name of the deleted file. Good Indicates that these files can be restored without risking data loss. If the result does not meet your expectations, it means that certain sectors have been overwritten by direct hard disk operations, such as DEFRAG or CHKDSK. [. . . ] For example, a file named Important. doc, deleted from drive C:, is renamed DC110. doc. The best way to recover such files would be either to restore all files beginning with DX and then to look for the required documents, - OR To restore all files with the desired extension, and then to look for the required ones. I have deleted some files and then directly attempted to restore them. Please read the details in Testing Avira UnErase. 18 Avira UnErase Personal Avira GmbH Service 7. 2 Service hotline All relevant information concerning our comprehensive support service can be found on our website http://www. avira. com. [. . . ]