Active@ UNDELETE

Work with Logical Drive configurations.

Using Active@ UNDELETE you can manipulate Logical Drives (or partitions) configuration as flexible tool to recover inaccessible data.

Creating Virtual Drive Info

You can create Virtual Drive (or a software drive access point) to emulate real Logical Drive (partition) to gain access to data on your hard drive.

To create Virtual drive, select desired device in which you what to create Virtual Drive and then do one of the following:

Click Edit > Add Virtual Drive... in command men, or
Right-click device item in Active@ UNDELETE Explorer. Click Add Virtual Drive... from the context menu.

Then "Create New Virtual Drive Info" dialog appears.

Here, you can select one of the file system, start and total sector of newly created Virtual Drive and click Ok to create Virtual Drive or Cancel to exit dialog.

If creation is successful, the new Virtual Drive appears under the selected device and can be scanned for files and folders, the same as a normal Local Drive.

You can also modify the properties of this Virtual Drive or even delete it from device subordinates.

Modifying properties of an Existing Drive.

Sometimes a local drive’s properties become corrupted. As a result, all data on this drive becomes inaccessible even if the drive is recognized by operating system. To recover data from this drive, you can adjust the drive’s properties by taking following steps:

1. Create virtual copy of a drive.

All manipulation of drive properties applies to the copy of the drive to ensure that none of real drive’s properties are altered. Follow these steps to make a copy of a drive:

Select desired drive in Explorer Tree
Click Edit > Clone Drive Info, or
Right-click drive item in Active@ UNDELETE Explorer. Click Clone Drive Info from the context menu.

After these commands, the cloned (copied) drive appears under appropriate device in explorer tree with icon:

2. Modifying Drive Properties

For virtual drive you can alter its properties by doing one of the following:

click Edit > Modify Drive Info..., or
Right-click Virtual Drive item in Active@ UNDELETE Explorer. Click Modify Drive Info... from the context menu.

After that, “Modify Drive Info” dialog should appear.

You can modify drives properties in as many combinations and as many time as you want a while achieving data on this drive accessible.

Saving Device’s Drive Info.

After scanning a device for deleted or damaged partitions, or after manually editing a device's existing Local Drives, all device drive information can be stored into the file and loaded back at any time.

To save a device’s drive info, you have to select the desired device and do one of the following:

Click Edit > Save Drive Info... command in command menu, or
Right-click device with Virtual or Detected Drives items in Active@ UNDELETE Explorer. Click Save Drive Info... from the context menu.

Later, you can open a previously-saved device drive information file. To do so, select the desired device and do one of the following: