How to recover files from a Physical Disk?

Use Physical Disk to scan deleted items across all partitions on a disk (not just one drive letter). Deep Scan mode works with this source type. Follow the steps below.

Step 1. Open Scan Wizard. Set Scan Mode to Deep Scan and Source Type to Physical Disk. Choose the disk, then click Start Scan.

Scan Wizard 鈥?Source Type Physical Disk and Start Scan

Step 2. Open Tasks to watch progress. When results are ready, click View Results.

Tasks 鈥?Physical Disk Deep Scan running, View Results

Step 3. In Results, filter to Deleted only (recoverable). Browse the tree, select files, then click Recover Selected.

Results 鈥?Deleted only filter and recover files from Physical Disk scan

Tip: Do not recover files back onto the same disk you are scanning.

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