How to Recover Deleted Files
How do I run RestoreMyFiles? Either click on “Start Quick Scan” or “Advanced Scan” to start recovering deleted files.
Why won’t the program recover some of my files?
RestoreMyFiles has been designed to recover the remaining data on your hard disk. However, RestoreMyFiles is not designed to repair the content of deleted files.
A deleted file that is corrupted or partially re-used by the Windows operating system will not be readable. This is not a factor of the RestoreMyFiles software, but a factor of how the Windows operating systems will recycle part of (or the entire) deleted files. RestoreMyFiles does recover deleted files that remain intact in your hard disk.
What drives will RestoreMyFiles detect?
RestoreMyFiles will be able to scan any drive shown in the ‘Hard Disk Drives’ section of ‘My Computer’ (except network). This includes:
- USB External drives
- Removable Flash drives
- ZIP drives
- Floppy drives
My operating system is gone, can I still recover my files?
Unfortunately, at this point in time, once the operating system is gone, recovering deleted files is a real problem and RestoreMyFiles will not be able to perform its task.
However you can try attaching the hard drive in question to another computer as a secondary drive. If the drive is being detected as a volume (c:, d:, e: etc) you may try a ‘Physical Scan’.
Physical scan: Scan the whole HDD regardless if the space is allocated or not, formatted or not. This potentially will detect files in un-partitioned space on the HDD.
