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2. Recover Files from Windows Computer
Although Recoverit has updated its interface, the recovery process is still the same. To recover data on a computer, please follow these 3 steps:
Select a location
Preview & Recover
Step 1Select a Location
To recover data on a computer, it is necessary to choose a location where you have lost data.
After you launch this program, the default interface will be showing "Hard Drives and Locations" on the left. Here, please select a hard disk under the "Hard Disk Drives" tab or Desktop under the "Quick Access" tab.
Click "Start" to begin the scanning on the selected location.
Step 2Scan the Location
Recoverit will start an all-around scan automatically. In the former versions, it would take a few minutes to finish the scanning. Sometimes, even a few hours were required if many large-sized files were present. However, Recoverit has largely speed up the scanning process and will surely save your recovery time.
Meanwhile, you can see the real-time the scanning results on the interface, by which you can check the result at any time.
During the scanning process, you can also pinpoint files or stop scanning for your convenience.
If you are looking for lost or deleted videos, then you can click on the "Advanced Video Recovery" option that is located at the bottom-left corner of the interface. Simply click on it to perform a deep scan to look for large-sized videos. You can know more about the Advanced Video Recovery feature later in this tutorial.
1Pinpoint Files During the Scanning
During the scanning, you can toggle between different ways to filter, select, and pinpoint the files you want to recover. The ways are respectively "File Type", "Time", "File Size" and "All Files". After you set the filter, the program will load the searching results match to what you want.
Moreover, you can also directly search the keywords in the right-up box. Then Recoverit will recognize all the files referred to the keywords.
File Type: Filter results for specific file types, such as photos, multiple file types, or view all file types
Time: This will let you filter files for specific dates on which they were modified or created.Toggle between the feature to show system files or hide system files
File Size: To view all files irrespective of their size or files of a specific size (like 100-500 MB)
All Files: By clicking this, you can view all files or only view the deleted files.
2Pause or Stop the Scanning
Even if Recoverit starts to scan the selected location for your lost data, you can pause or stop it at any time. You can suspend the scanning temporarily by clicking the pause button
, and the notice "Scanning Paused" will display on the progress bar. You can continue the process after clicking the play button
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If you have found something you want, you can stop the process at any point by clicking on the stop button
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Step 3 Preview and Recover Files
Recoverit allows users to preview the recoverable files before proceeding to the recovery step. If you are premium users, you can preview files with no limits. If you utilize the free version, you can still get a 10-second preview.
You can select the targeted files and click the "Recover" button to retrieve your files back.
1 Preview Files after the Scanning
As a Recoverit user, you can preview data by clicking on the file.
Besides, a preview window will pop up after clicking the "Preview" button or double-clicking a file.
Moreover, when you click on the file, some information about the file will display, including the file name, file size, file path, and the modified date.
Recoverit provides a wide preview for photos on its interface. The interface also displays other similar photos for our reference at the bottom. Additionally, it also gives us an option to view the photo on full screen, zoom in, zoom out, or rotate it.
Recoverit supports to preview almost all the common types of files, such as images, videos, audios, Outlook emails, documents, and many more.
Preview a Photo