What are the best settings to recover from a FORMAT of my media?
• Run Recover My Files and select the “Format Recover” option • If you have formatted your hard drive, select the “physical drive” to search. The size of the drive displayed by Recover My Files should correspond to the physical size of your hard drive. If you have formatted and re-installed an Operating System, select the “logical drive” to search (eg. drive “D:”) • In the File Type selection screen select no more than 5 file types. Make the file types ones that you know were located on the formatted disk. We recommend ‘.doc’, ‘.xls’, ‘.ppt’, ‘.wav’ & ‘.jpg’ (do not select MP3 or Text file types unless these were the only files located on your formatted disk as this will slow the search down). Note: The file types that you select in a Format Recover do not have to be the actual files that you wish to recover. The 5 files will be used to identify the full file structure of the formatted drive. All file types will be found and displayed in the results screen under the folder “Recovered P
