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UNFORMAT Software Documentation
1.0 Unformat Overview
Unformat is a versatile utility that will help you recover data from a physical device or a logical drive that has been:
- accidentally formatted
- recently deleted
- recently deleted and re-created
Major features and functionality of Unformat:
- Creates a disk image for the selected drive or device that can be:
- restored back to the starting point if data recovery is impossible
- scanned repeatedly to try other recovery methods
- Scans the device or logical drive and finds all partitions (existing, deleted or re-formatted)
- Displays scan results in a format that allows you to browse folders and files and determine recovery status
- Recovers a selected partition, or data from it using one of the following methods:
- Physical recovery: fixes boot sectors and Master Boot Record; a quick method but not always successful
- Unformat: formats a target partition and copies all data from a disk image of the damaged partition to a new formatted drive
- Copy: copies all data from the damaged partition to another folder on the local drive, or to a network folder