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Introduction the Restorer2000

Restorer2000 is a powerful utility, which can restore files being deleted accidentally from FAT or NTFS partitions and even reconstruct formatted and corrupted drives.

Restorer2000 can restore files such non-trivial cases as national language filenames, very long filenames, NTFS compressed files, files with an alternative data streams  - such as Windows 2000 or Windows XP file information.

Unique SmartScan technology combined with flexibility of adjusting all parameters gives you real control over fastest data reconstruction ever seen.

Usage of Drive Images is very useful for such tasks as recovering drive with a lot of bad sectors.

Detailed context sensitive information and ability to adjust as most as possible brings you incredible quality and data safety in extremely non-ordinal situations.

You can find and restore deleted files in few seconds using program's powerful algorithms.


Contact authors

To obtain updates and support for registered users contacts:

Product Site	http://www.restorer2000.com

Tech. Support	<support@bitmart.net>

Sales Department	<office@bitmart.net>

Corporate E-mail	<office@bitmart.net>


Recovering deleted files

To recover deleted files in three simple steps:

1. Open drive, then open drive's files

OR

    Open drive, then reconstruct drive, then open partition's files

OR

    Open drive, then create region, then reconstruct region, then open partition's files

OR

    Open image, then reconstruct image, then open partition's files

2. Find files using search capabilities or apply filters to show only subset of files or folders.

3. Recover files.

Please, pay attention to the event log, showing useful information about recovering process.


Using regular expressions

Using regular expressions:

Regular expression (regexps) is a notation for specifying patterns of text, as opposed to exact strings of characters. The notation uses literal characters and metacharacters. Every character which does not have special meaning in the regular-expression syntax is a literal character and matches an occurrence of that character. For example, letters and numbers are literal characters. A metacharacter is a symbol with special meaning (an operator or delimiter) in the regular-expression syntax. Metacharacters being accepted by Recover2000:

.        Wildcard: any character

*        Repeat: zero or more occurrences of previous character or class

^        Line position: beginning of line

$        Line position: end of line

[class]  Character class: any character in set

[^class] Inverse class: any character not in set

[x-y]    Range: any characters within the specified range

\x       Escape: literal use of metacharacter x

\<xyz    Word position: beginning of the word

xyz\>    Word position: end of the word

For example the following regexp .*  matches any string of characters, ^a matches any string beginning with character a.


Drive selection

In order to show drive's files first you are to open the drive.

To open the drive:

1. Click [image] Select Drive button

OR

     From Drive menu choose Select...

2. Drive selection window appears:

3. Select physical drive, logical drive, region or image.

4. Open drive's files or scan drive for partitions.


Using regions

Drive region is a custom defined area on the drive. It can be used for scanning as well as storage of regular drives.

To create or modify drive region:

1. Select physical drive, logical drive or image.

2. Click [image] Create Region button

OR

     From context menu choose Create Region...

OR

     From Drive menu choose Create Region...

3. Region creation / modification dialog appears:

4. Enter Start and Size of region that will be allocated on underlying drive.

5. Click Create.


Using images

Image is a file, which stores a copy of some physical drive, logical drive or region. It can be used for scanning and recognizing as well as storing regular files. Images are very useful for example for recovering drive with a lot of bad sectors and copying drive for later reconstruction.

To create drive image:

1. Select physical drive, logical drive or region.

2. From context menu choose Create Image File...

OR

     From Drive menu choose Create Image File...

3. Standard windows save dialog appears:

4. Enter File name.

5. Click Save.

To open image file:

1. Select Images folder, from it's context menu choose Open Image File...

OR

     From Drive menu choose Open Image File...

2. Standard windows open dialog appears:

4. Enter File name.

5. Click Open.


Specifying options for the Drive

To set up drive options:

1. Select physical drive or logical drive.

2. From Drive menu choose Set Read Attempts...

OR

     From context menu choose Set Read Attempts...

3. Set Read Attempts dialog appears:

4. Enter number of read attempts.

5. Click Set.


Scanning drive for partitions

Drive can be scanned for partitions in case of corrupted or erased partition tables or drive's physical failure.

To scan drive for partitions:

1. Select physical drive, logical drive, region or image.

2. Click [image] Scan button

OR

     From context menu choose Scan

OR

     From Drive menu choose Scan

3. Progress indicator appears:

4. Wait until progress indicator reaches right side or terminate scanning process using [image] stop button.

5. Proceed with scanned partitions


Managing partitions

Recognized partitions appear after scanning drive in partitions window:

Each partition is represented by it's fields:

 Number          Represents file system and sequental number of recognized partition.

 Origin	Represents method(s) used to recognize this partition. Possible methods are:

B - partition was created by boot record

F - partition was created while analysis of drive's files

O - other partition(s)

 Start	Start position of partition on underlying drive

 EstSize	Estimated size of partition

 MaxSize	Maximum size of partition

 Cluster	Size of partition's cluster

 MFTRec	Size of partition's MFT record

Start, EstSize and MaxSize fields affect the way of belonging files to one or more partitions.

If file was used to create some partition (see origin's F option) it belongs only to this partition.

If file fits to (Start,Start+EstSize) interval of some partition it belongs only to this partition.

Otherwise file belongs to all partitions where it fits to (Start,Start+MaxSize) interval.

You can open partition's files or manage partitions the following way:

To add new partition:

1. From context menu choose Add New Partition...

OR

     From Drive menu choose Add New Partition...

To change partition:

1. Select partition.

    Click [image] Edit button

OR

     From context menu choose Edit...

OR

     From Tools menu choose Edit...

2. Partition creation / modification dialog appears:

3. Enter information about fields for the partition.

4. Click Change.

To delete partition:

1. Click [image] Remove Partition button

OR

    From context menu choose Remove Partition

OR

     From Tools menu choose Delete...

To reset partitions to default:

1. From context menu choose Reset Partitions List

OR

     From Drive menu choose Reset Partitions List


Openning drive files

To show files and folders on the drive:

1. Select physical drive, logical drive, region, image or found partition.

2. Click [image] Open Drive Files button

OR

     From context menu choose Open Drive Files

OR

    From Drive menu choose Open Drive Files

3. Progress indicator will appears:

4. Wait until progress indicator reaches right side or terminate scan process using [image] stop button.

5. Explore files and folders presented on the drive.


Exploring files

Drive's files and folders appear after opening drive in folders window:

and files window:

You can:

•	Search for files and directories

•	Set filter for files and folders

•	Recover files or folders

•	Select another drive to be explored


Searching files

To search for files or folders:

1. Click [image] Find button

OR

     From Tools menu choose Find...

2. Find dialog appears:

3. In Find field enter filename to be searched.

4. In Match case and Regular expression field select pattern for search.

5. In Deleted files and Existing files check boxes and Look at groupbox according to type of files to be searched.

6. In Direction groupbox select direction of search.

7. Click OK


Repeating search

1. To find next file by specified search criteria:

    Click [image] Find Next button

OR

    From Tools menu choose Find Next

2. To find previous file by specified search criteria:

    Click [image] Find Previous button

OR

    From Tools menu choose Find Previous


Setting files filters

To set up filter for files and folders:

1. Click [image] File Mask button

OR

     From Tools menu choose File Mask...

2. File types dialog appears:

3. In Files of type field enter filemask to be shown.

4. In Match case and Regular expression field select kind of filtering.

5. In Deleted files and Existing files check boxes according to type of files to be showed.

6. Click OK


Event log

At bottom of the main window Event Log panel appears:

It shows vital information about events while restoring process.


Managing event log

To set up filter for event log:

1. From Tools menu choose Log filter...

2. Log filter dialog appears:

3. In Type groupbox select types of events to be shown.

4. In Severity groupbox select severity of events to be shown.

5. Click OK

To clear event log:

1. From Tools menu choose Clear Log.


Recovering files

To recover files or folders:

1. Select files and/or folders to be recovered.

2. Click [image] Recover button

OR

     From context menu choose Recover...

OR

     From Tools menu choose Recover...

3. Patch for recovered files dialog appears:

4. In Output Folder field enter folder where recovered files will be saved.

5. Check Restore Folder Structure checkbox to recover files and directories with folder structure, otherwise files will be recovered to Output Folder without subfolder reconstruction.

6. Check Condense successful restoration events checkbox to condense all events describing successful restoration of files into one single summary event.

7. Click OK


SmartScan is a unique technology for fast disk structure restoring. The data is restored from the information obtained from disk scan. A physical or logical disk, disk region, or disk image saved as a file can be scanned. SmartScan can restore all previous partitions if the scanned disk has some direct or indirect data on those partitions. SmartScan allows you to interactively control and modify these data during scanning.