Active undelete 5.1.010

Active UNDELETE is a data recovery software used to restore accidentally deleted files and folders located on existing drives, and even on deleted/damaged partitions.
Active UNDELETE as a new generation of Data Recovery software from LSoft Technologies has enhanced scanning and restoring features and much more, such us:

Restoring files and folders
Disk Images
Search deleted files, using Advanced Search options

To take full advantage of Active UNDELETE, it's helpful to understand what this application can do for you. To do this refer to the following topics:

Recovery deleted files and folders
Create and Open Disk Images
Using Advanced Search
Using Active Remote Recovery Agent
... and more!

Active UNDELETE designed to explore and browse all data storages installed on computer in different ways to discover and recover lost or damaged data.

Active UNDELETE Explorer displays the hierarchical structure of your current drives, devices and folders. Some of this information is shown in:
Tree and File Panes
Tool Views
Status bar information at the bottom of the Explorer window
Explorer uses symbols to provide visual cues about the status of drives, devices, folders and other items
Explorer toolbar provides a quick way to execute frequently-used commands as well as a standard command menu

If you are using the Network Edition of Active UNDELETE you be able to connect to Active@ Remote Recovery Agent. This is a utility that provides recovery features over a network environment.


The computer that you want to connect to must have Active Remote Recovery Agent running with status Enabled. After you establish connection through the network, then you can scan and browse the file system of the remote computer.


Active Remote Recovery Agent connects to networked PCs in one of the following ways:

Select a workstation from a drop-down list of network neighborhood computer names, located at the top of the explorer Tree Pane.
Type a computer name or computer IP address into the combo box text field and press [Enter] to connect. Click Browse to Computer located on the right side of the neighborhood computers drop-down list. A Browse to Computer dialog box opens.
In the command toolbar, click Actions > Connect... to open the Browse to Computer dialog box. If the remote computer has Active@ Remote Recovery Agent protected with a password, you will be prompted when connection is established. If the password you enter matches the password defined for Active@ Remote Recovery Agent the connection will be established.

Active UNDELETE Explorer Tool Views gives ability to see additional information about navigated items, observe data flow and access to most advanced features of Active UNDELETE.

Disk Image is a mirror of your logical drive or physical device that is stored in one file. This can be useful when you want to backup the contents of the whole drive, and restore it or work with it later. Before you start recovering the deleted files, it may be a good idea to create a Disk Image for this drive, if you have enough space at another drive. Why? Because if you do something wrong while recovering the files (for example, recovering them onto the same drive could destroy their contents), you still will be able to recover these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that you have wisely created.

Active UNDELETE provides extensive functionality to operate with Disk Images. You can create image of either Logical drive, Device or Partition. Save it as one large file or splitted on image chunks with size you prefer for later use.



When you creating Disk Image, it stores in at least two files: one is Configuration file and the second - actual image body file. If you decide to save disk image chopped on peaces (chunks) then image body files can be as many as its required to save data.

Example: (create Drive Disk Image of size 7,84 Gb with options to make it with 1Gb chunks)

DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ONTO THE DRIVE CONTAINING YOUR IMPORTANT DATA THAT YOU HAVE JUST DELETED ACCIDENTALLY!
Even data recovery software installation could spoil your sensitive data. If the data is really important to you, and you do not have another logical drive to install software to, take whole hard drive out of the computer and plug into another computer where data recovery software has been already installed.

DO NOT SAVE ONTO THE SAME DRIVE DATA THAT YOU FOUND AND TRYING TO RECOVER!
While saving recovered data onto the same drive where sensitive data was located, you can intrude in process of recovering by overwriting table records for this and other deleted entries. It's better to save data onto another logical, removable, network or floppy drive.

CREATE DISK IMAGE IF YOU HAVE EXTRA HARD DRIVE, OR OTHER LOGICAL DRIVES ARE BIG ENOUGH!
Disk Image is a mirror of your logical drive that is stored in one file. This can be useful when you want to backup the contents of the whole drive, and restore it or work with it later. Before you start recovering the deleted files, it may be a good idea to create a Disk Image for this drive, if you have enough space at another drive. Why? Because if you do something wrong while recovering the files (for example, recovering them onto the same drive could destroy their contents), you still will be able to recover these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that you have wisely created.