RescueME

RescueME File Recovery Guide

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This is a brief description of how to use RecueME to recover a file from your PC, hopefully you'll read this before it's needed..

Download RescueME (make sure you save the file to a hdd / partition you are not trying to recover data from.)

Extract the contents of the RescueME file.  BUT NOT TO THE PARTITION OR HDD YOU ARE WANTING TO RECOVER FILES FROM AS YOU MAY WRITE OVER THE DATA YOU ARE TRYING TO RECOVER.  Remember RescueME can be run from a usb flash drive.

Run RescueME.bat

Select Option 5.

Run either Restoration or FreeUndelete.

Restoration

To scan the hdd/partition that you need to recover data from click Search Deleted Files.  Once the scan has completed select any file you want to restore and click restore by copying.  SAFE FILES TO ANOTHER MEDIA, eg another hdd / partition, flash drive etc....  DO NOT RESTORE FILES TO THE SAME HDD/PARTITION.

There are a couple of more advanced options that you can try if the default scan fails to find what you are looking for, include used clusters by other files and include even if the file size is zero.  Selecting these options will make the scan take longer.

FreeUndelete

Simply select the drive you want to scan and click Scan C, Scan D depending on what drive you have highlighted.  Select where you want to rescue the files too: Undelete selected files to (use browse to change default location of C:).  Then press undelete.

Hopefully if you are reading this it will be before you need to recover any files, install recovery software which works from within Windows see freeware list here.  Alternative make the UBCD4Win, which will give you a windows based platform to recover your data and contains freeware software.

If you still can't recover your files you will need a paid for solution see above ads and/or you will need to decide whether the cost of data recovery by professionals will be worth it.  Prices vary but here are a several companies to consider, but you may need to shop around.  Ontrack    Convar    Fields Data Recovery    DTIData    EZRecovery Site

27/01/2005