Power Data Recovery

<BODY> <h1 align="center"><a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Power Data Recovery</a></h1> <table class="bar title" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" > <tr> <td width="100%" height="32" style="padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Power Data Recovery - Deleted File Recovery : Volume Recovery : Physical Device Recovery</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><b><u><font face="Arial" size="2">Product Overview</font></u></b></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font face="Arial"><b><span style="color: #000000"><font size="2">Power Data Recovery</font></span></b><font size="2"> is a risk-free and <b>READ ONLY</b> data recovery utility that helps you in recovering your all important data lost after accidental format, virus problems, software malfunction, file/directory deletion, or even a sabotage! It is an easy to use data  recovery utility that examines your inaccessible hard drives for damages and corruptions and recovers the data back.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><u><font style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Key Features:</b></font></u></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">Supported file systems: FAT 12/16/32 (used by hard disks, disks, Smartmedia™, Compact Flash™, Memory Stick and other) and NTFS (used by hard drives)</font> </ul> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">Easy to use and 4 steps to recover your lost data. No technical knowledge needed.</font> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">Ability to scan all volumes in a local machine and build a directory tree of all lost and deleted files.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">Saving data to any windows (including network drives, removable media, etc.) drive possible</font> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#FF0000">Supports NTFS compressed and encrypted files.</font> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#FF0000">Supported Dynamic Volume: Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Stripe Volume, Mirror Volume, Raid-5 Volume.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">Ability to resume the last recovery result.  </font></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><u><b><font style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">File System Supported:</font></b></u></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal" size="2" face="Arial">FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 File system.</font></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><b><u><font size="2" face="Arial">System Requirements:</font></u></b></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">486 or Pentium-class processor IDE/SCSI hard drive 64MB RAM (128 MB recommended) Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, 100 MB of free space. Second hard disk is recommended for recovery.</font></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><b><u><font size="2" face="Arial">Limitations:</font></u></b></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 4; margin-left:20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">This software is <b>NOT</b> able to find data on a <b>physically damaged</b> drive!</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5; margin-left:20px"><font size="2" face="Arial">Not every file can be undeleted: less fragmentation (common if media not full) will increase the rate of recovery because the entire data is stored at the beginning of the first cluster of a file. The probability of recovery is lower, the smaller the disk capacity relative to the file size is.</font></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><font size="2" face="Arial"><br> </font></p> Choose "<b>Deleted File Recovery</b>" if you want to recover files that were intentionally (or accidentally) deleted.<br> Choose "<b>Volume Recovery</b>" if you want to recover files on the re-format or damaged volume.<br> Choose "<b>Resume Recovery</b>" if you want to resume the last recovery result.<br> If you have lost partition or cannot find the volume you want to recovery in "Volume Recovery" module, you should choose "<b>Physical Device Recovery</b>".<br> <br> <table class="bar title" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#0000ee"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="32"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Deleted File Recovery</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2">This module works only with deleted files and allows to "undelete" them (another popular term is "unerase"). <br> Intact file system is important for this module. If you know that there is something wrong with your file system (for example, you did not delete some folder/files but you cannot access them) or if you see something strange with Windows, you should use "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Volume Recovery</a>" module.<br> <br> First of all, you can see the list of all logical volumes found on Host Computer:<br> (If you cannot find the volume that you want to recover, please use "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Physical Device Recovery</a>" Module instead.)<br> <br> Choose one of them and press the "Recover" button.<br> <br> Then Power Data Recovery will read the file system of the selected volume to memory.<br> This step may take a few minutes depending on the size of the used volume space. You have to wait until this scanning is finished, otherwise Power Data Recovery may not be able to find and recover deleted files. After this scanning is finished, you'll see some progress bars - Building virtual file system in memory. </font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2">After this scanning is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.<br> Go to "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Working with found data</a>" section of this guide for further steps. </font></p> <table class="bar title" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#0000ee"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="32"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#FFFFFF">Volume Recovery</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2">This module works with formatted, damaged and inaccessible volume.<br> <br> The Volume Recovery module will allow you to recover files from a partition, which has been accidentally formatted or damaged. This type of recovery will scan the specified volume and then list the analyzed file system. After finished scanning, you just need choose a file system you want recover.<br> <br> For example, you did not delete some folder/files but you cannot access them. The file data is still present on the partition and can be recovered using this module.<br> <br> The first screen on the Volume Recovery module will display a list of volumes found on the system. If the volume that that you want to recover is not listed, you may need to select the "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Physical Device Recovery</a>" module to recover your data.  <br> <br> To start the Volume Recovery module, select a volume and click "Recover" to begin Scanning for file system.<br> Power Data Recovery will analyze all the files that the volume included, this may take a few minutes depending on the capacity of the device.<br> After the process of analyzing is completed, the Power Data Recovery workspace will display a list of analyzed file system.<br> Once you have identified the file system from which you want to recover data, select the file system then press Show Files to begin reading for files.</font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2"> After reading for files is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.<br> Go to "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Working with found data</a>" section of this guide for further steps. </font></p> <table class="title bar" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#0000ee"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="32"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Physical Device Recovery</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2">This module is designed for data recovery from physical device with crashed file system, mistakenly deleted partitions, drives with failed operation/file system, drives suffered from virus. And if, you want to recover deleted files, you have to choose "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Deleted File Recovery</a>" or "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Volume Recovery</a>". And this module cannot recover data from a Striped Volume, Spanned Volume, RAID 5 Volume.<br> <br> First of all, you will see list of physical devices attached to Host Computer and partitions found.If you do not see your Bad Device here, your HDD most probably has some problems on physical level. We recommend that you send the device to the professional data recovery company to recover your data. <br> <br> Then, you have to select the physical device which you want to recover data. Then press Recover to begin scan partitions on the selected device. Power Data Recovery will search all the partition that the device included, this may take a few minutes depending on the capacity of the device.<br> <br> After the process of searching partition is completed, the Power Data Recovery workspace will display a list of found partitions. Once you have identified the partition from which you want to recover data, select the partition then press Show Files to begin reading for files.</font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2"> After reading for files is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.<br> Go to "<a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Working with found data</a>" section of this guide for further steps. </font></p> <table class="bar title" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#0000ee"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="32"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#FFFFFF">Working with found Data</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2">Working with Power Data Recovery's file/folder tree is simple - you can walk thru the tree in the left pane, seeing files in the right pane, with the name, size, date and time. Main goal here is to select all files and folders you want to recover.<br> <br> Maximize the Power Data Recovery application window now, in order to see more details on files and folders you are going to recover.<br> Open folder trees by clicking the plus signs to the left of folder names in the left pane. Select a folder in the left pane, and its content will be shown in the right pane. All columns in the right pane are resizeable (use your mouse on header of columns area). Headers of columns are clickable, you can change sorting order for the list of files by clicking header of the column. <br> <br> You have the ability to filter files by selecting the Apply Filter button. By using filter options, you have the ability to view only those specific files you wish to view. You can find for files with Find File buttons on the right panel of the Power Data Recovery application window.<br> <br> In Deleted File Recovery module, only the deleted and lost files will be listed in the file/folder tree.<br> <br> <b><u>File Preview</u></b><br> <br> Click "View as Text" will display the file content as text (only support .txt and .rtf file.).<br> Click "View as Image" will display the file as a image (support .bmp, .gif, .emf, .jpg, .tif, or .png and etc.). <br> Click "View as Video/Audio" will play a video or audio file (all files are supported if a proper codec is installed on the system).<br> The "Quick Previewer" supports image file and Microsoft Office Word Document, Microsoft Office Excel file, Microsoft Office PowerPoint file and Adobe PDF file.</font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>NOTE: </b><u><i>The "Quick Previewer" could display the first page of Microsoft Office Word Document, Microsoft Office Excel file, Microsoft Office PowerPoint file and Adobe PDF file only.</i></u></font></p> <table align="center" border="0" width="600" id="table22" height="691"> <tr> <td width="62%" height="106"><b> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top">Power Data Recovery</a> 3.0</font></b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><b><br> </b>Data recovery for personal and business</font></td> <td width="35%" height="106"> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="http://www.eofsoft.com/images/imagesCAYA471A.jpg" width="104" height="104"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="52"> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Power Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery software designed by MT Solution Ltd. Since the release of version 1.0 in 2003 we have had many happy customers around the world. Power Data Recovery is becoming the first choice solution when facing a lost data problem.<br> <br> Power Data Recovery is a read-only data recovery shareware. It is completely safe to use to recover data after accidental deletion, format, re-partition, system crash and virus attack. It never writes anything to your disk during recovery.<br>   </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><b> <img border="0" src="http://www.eofsoft.com/images/point_2.jpg" width="9" height="9"> Feature overview</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="142"> <ul> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data after accidental deletion</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data after an accidental format</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data from an inaccessible volume (logical drive)</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data after FAT corruption</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data after repartition (fdisk)</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data from a crashed physical device</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data after an MBR corruption </font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Recover data  from a hard drive, camera card, USB drive, Zip, floppy disk</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040"> Recover data for any error except physical damage</font></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="25"> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><b> <img border="0" src="http://www.eofsoft.com/images/point_2.jpg" width="9" height="9"> Key Features</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <ul> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Supports FAT 12/16/32</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Supports NTFS</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Supports NTFS compressed and encrypted files</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Supports Dynamic Volume including Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Stripe Volume, Mirror Volume and Raid Volume.</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Supports RAW data recovery</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Built-in preview function</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Built-in resume recovery function</font></li> <li> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040"> Built-in Recovery Wizard</font></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><b> <img border="0" src="http://www.eofsoft.com/images/point_2.jpg" width="9" height="9"> </b></font> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1">License</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><font color="#404040">Power Data Recovery is a shareware. You can download it for free and try all the features before you purchase a license from us. However, to save recovered data over 640k requires a license. Please visit </font> <a href="eofsoft.html" TARGET="_top"><font color="#404040">order & pay</font></a><font color="#404040"> for details.<br>  </font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="18"> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><b> <img border="0" src="http://www.eofsoft.com/images/point_2.jpg" width="9" height="9"> </b></font> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1">System requirements</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="42"> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#404040">Windows operating system. 486 or Pentium-class processor IDE/SATA/SCSI hard drive 64MB RAM (128 MB recommended), 100 MB of free space. A second hard disk is recommended for recovery.</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td height="120" align="left" valign="top"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" id="table17" height="237"> <tr> <td> <table border="1" width="100%" id="table18" bordercolor="#808080" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="227"> <tr> <td> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table19" cellpadding="0" height="224"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> <table class="bar title" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#0000ee"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="32"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF" size="4">FAQ</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Can Power Data Recovery harm my disk? </b><o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">As long as the drive is not physically damaged there is no risk in using the software. Power Data Recovery only reads from the drive, and does NOT write to it at any time by itself. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> Q: Can fragmentation of the drive affect the result of the recovery? </b><o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Fragmentation in NTFS should not effect the results of the recovery. Information about a file's allocation is stored in a MFT entry. However with the FAT file system, this information is stored in the FAT and this information will be lost after deleting, so the lower the fragmentation of the drive is, the higher the chance of a recovery is.<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Can I recover data on a Flash Card™ or SmartMedia™?</b><o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Yes, that's possible, but your media has to be appear as a logical Windows drive. Look at you camera manufacturer if it supports a special driver software that will show the smart media as a logical Windows drive. If no driver is supported you can buy a memory card reader. There are several types: for notebooks (PC-CARD / PCMCIA) and for PCs (USB, IDE). Ask your local computer shop!<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Can I recover my data after performing FDISK?</b><o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Even if your partitions have been deleted with FDISK, you can use Physical Device Recovery and select a physical drive scan from Power Data Recovery and recover the data from the lost partition. Furthermore, even if you have created new partitions after removing the old ones, you can still recover your data with the Power Data Recovery. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Can I recover data from a formatted disk?<o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">A disk can be formatted in three different ways: Quick, Standard and Low-Level (physical) format.<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Quick Format enables you to quickly format a disk, by simply initializing the directory entry information in the root directory area and the FAT information. The data area during this proves to be still intact. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">On the other hand, Standard Format examines the data area, and maps the bad sectors. Since each sector head must be read to determine whether it is bad, the process takes a substantial amount of time. If a bad sector is detected, clusters in that sector are marked in the FAT to prevent them from future usage. However, just like quick format, full format does not overwrite the data area, and the data content is preserved. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Finally, Low-Level Format modifies the surface molecule arrangement, initializes the entire disk, and records sector identifiers to each track (creating addresses to identify sectors within each track). All of the data contained in the disk is initialized, preventing any future recovery attempts. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">If file system information such as directory entries or FAT is lost, the file cannot be opened by the Windows operating system. However, Power Data Recovery is capable of directly reading data from the data area to recover files after a quick or standard format.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">For hard disks, a quick or standard format is generally carried out as a high-level format, where data areas are not overwritten. Therefore, even though the FAT or the root directory are initialized, Power Data Recovery can still recover the data remaining in the data area.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">On the other hand, for disk media that cannot be partitioned with FDISK, such as a floppy disk, a standard format is comparable to a low-level (physical) format process, rendering the original data on the floppy as unrecoverable. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Can I use Power Data Recovery to recover data from CD's, CDR's and DVD's?</b><o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">No, Power Data Recovery is a software for hard drives, floppy disks, Jazz drives and Zip drives only.<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Does Power Data Recovery also recover all NTFS permissions for a deleted file?<o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">No, it recovers the file information, but the privileges should be re-edited onto the file.<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Does Power Data Recovery rescue every kind of file format or just some?<o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Power Data Recovery can recover all files, but the files may not have been overwritten.<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Does Power Data Recovery run in the background, monitoring your files as you create, save or delete them? In other words, will it only recover files that were lost after Power Data Recovery was installed? <o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">The program does not monitor any files. It get the files by examining the file system (so called on-disk format of the files). There the files are marked with special attributes and names. Recovering is simular: the programs scans the hard disk and searches for a special pattern: the stamp of a directory ('.' or '..') and then assumes a lost directory. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: For what are the recovered .$EFS files?<o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">These files are packed raw encrypted files that will be imported into a new NTFS file during saving. If the importing was successful, these files will be deleted automatically. If the file could not be imported (because it was not saved to a NTFS volume), you may save your files to a NTFS volume. <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: I cannot open the recovered files with software program applicable to the type of the file recovered. Why?</b> <o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Your files were overwritten by other data. In this case there is no way to retrieve the data.<o:p> </o:p> </font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Q: Is it possible to recover lost files to a CDR/RW drive?<o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="2">Power Data Recovery is not a CDRW burning software! Anyway you can save to a CDRW if the software/ hardware supports packet recording. You have to install an UDF driver for your CDRW drive. Then you can save files like to a hard drive to the CDRW drive (This feature is already included in Windows XP).</font></span></p> </blockquote> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"> </p> <table class="bar title" border="0" width="100%" height="38" bgcolor="#3E6594" bordercolor="#0000ee"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="32"> <p align="left" style="text-indent: 10"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Glossary of Terms</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>HDD</b><br> Short for "Hard Disk Drive", an HDD helps manage the transfer of data to and from your computer's hard disk. Because these two items always come as a single unit, "hard disk drive" and "hard disk" are usually used to refer to the same thing.</font> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 15px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Partition</b> <br> A portion of a physical disk that functions as though it were a physically separate disk. After you create a partition, you must format it and assign it a drive letter before you can store data on it. <br> On basic disks, partitions are known as basic volumes, which include primary partitions and logical drives. On dynamic disks, partitions are known as dynamic volumes, which include simple, striped, spanned, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes. <br> <br> <b>Basic Disk</b> <br> A physical disk that can be accessed by MS-DOS and all Windows-based operating systems. Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives. <br> <br> <b>Dynamic Disk </b><br> A physical disk that provides features that basic disks do not, such as support for volumes that span multiple disks. Dynamic disks use a hidden database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and other dynamic disks in the computer. When you convert a basic disk to dynamic, all existing basic volumes become dynamic volumes.<br> <br> <b>Basic Volume</b> <br> A primary partition or logical drive that resides on a basic disk.<br> <br> <b>Dynamic Volume </b><br> A volume that resides on a dynamic disk. Windows supports five types of dynamic volumes: simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5. A dynamic volume is formatted by using a file system, such as file allocation table (FAT) or NTFS, and has a drive letter assigned to it.<br> <br> <b>Bad Device</b><br> This is the storage device that contains the data you want to recover. A Bad Device can be any disk-like storage media, such as your computer's hard drive, an external HDD, Flash card or any other form of removable media.<br> <br> <b>Good Device</b><br> This is a storage device that is in perfect working order onto which you want Power Data Recovery to save the data recovered from the Bad Device. The Good Device may be located on the computer on which you've installed Power Data Recovery (the "host" computer). The Good Device can be any of the storage media listed for the Bad Device. The Good Device is used to save recovered data from the Bad Device.<br> <br> <b>Host Computer</b><br> This is the computer on which you have installed Power Data Recovery. The Host Computer is used to recover the lost data from the Bad Device, which should be connected to the Host Computer as an additional drive (second, third or fourth - in addition to the existing drive(s) on the Host Computer).<br> The Bad Device set as an additional drive.<br> <i><u> If you are using removable media such as a Zip disk or Flash card, you should insert the device prior to launching Power Data Recovery.<font color="#FF0000"><br> </font></u></i> <br> <b>FAT</b><br> Short for "File Allocation Table", a FAT is a table stored on your storage device that tells the computer where to look over when it needs to find a file stored on this device. When you save data, it is stored in chunks of information called "clusters". The clusters for a single file may actually be located in several different areas on your storage media. The FAT is your computer's way of recording the locations of those clusters for each file you save. The term FAT is often used to refer the file systems, which use File Allocation Tables - FAT12, FAT16, FAT32.<br> <br> <b>NTFS</b><br> Short for "NT file system," this is basically the Windows NT equivalent of the FAT described above.<br> <br> </font><br> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </BODY>