Stellar Data Recovery/5. Working with the Software

5. Working with the Software

Stellar Data Recoveryprovides you different options to recover your data. To recover data, you have to first scan the hard drive or volume. If you want to recover data using apreviously scanned information,Stellar Data Recoveryhas the option of scanning them as well. After scanning, you canpreview the scanned resultsbefore recovery. You can then recover and save selected files to a destination folder of your choice.

WithStellar Data Recoveryyou can recover specific data. The software provides the following recovery options:

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Everything– This option recovers complete data from the selected hard drive or storage media. All documents, files, and folders present or deleted from the drive/media can be recovered using this option.
Documents, Folders, and Emails– Use to option to recover lost or deleted documents, folders and their content and mail items.
Multimedia Files– Using this option you can recover deleted or lost multimedia files like photos, audios, and videos.

The software also allows you to select any connected drive or a specific location on a drive or storage media connected to the system. Following selection options are provided by the software:

Connected Drives– These include all the drives and external storage media connected to the system.

There are specificicons,Symbols,andBarson volumes or partitions underConnected Drives. Refer to the below table for their details:

A. Drive Icons and Their Identification:

Icon	Identification
Lock Icon	ALock iconon a disk indicates drive isBitLocker Encrypted.
Minus Icon	AMinus Signicon on a disk indicatesLost Drive/Unallocatedvolume.
Warning Icon	AWarningicon on a disk indicatesSMARTstatus of a disk or volume. This icon appears on a disk when the disk health status is changed from good to bad.

B. Drive Symbol and Their Identification:

Symbol	Identification
Windows Symbol	AWindows Symbol一个磁盘上表明the bootable volume of a hard disk.
No Symbol	ANo Symbolon a disk indicatesExisting Volumeof a connected drive.
USB Symbol	AUSB cable Symbolon a disk indicates an external storage media or pendrive volume.

C. Drive Bar and Their Identification:

Bar	Identification
Green Bar	Greencolor bars on a disk signify the good health status of a disk.
Red Bar	Redcolor bars signify the bad health status of a disk.
Blue Bar	Bluecolor bars signify that theSMARTstatus is not supported in the drive.

Note:A drive can be a combination of anyIconorBar.

Physical Disks– It includes complete volumes of the system drive and external storage media connected to the system.
Common Locations– Common Locations include Desktop, Documents and Choose Location.

Working withStellar Data Recoverycovers the following topics: