How to Locate Lost Data with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Windows

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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Windows

Instruction 
In order to increase the success rate of recovery, the program would list every possible detected file on your disk after a full scan. So you may see a huge number of files even larger than the disk capacity. It seems clueless to locate your desired files among them. No worry. We prepared the following tips for you to directly locate your files.

Overview of the Scan Result

After the scan completes, there are tow main list on the page, the first one is Path and the second one is Type. They contain the same data but the data presented method is different, which may help you find the data more efficiently.

 

 
What is Path?
 
Under the path, there are three main folders: Local Disk(*), File Path Lost, Reconstructed.



What kind of files does each folder contain?

Local Disk(*)

Files founded through quick scan, which contains deleted or lost files and existing files. Those files generally come with original names and folders, you may be able to find the file by check where the file is originally located.

 

File Path Lost

File Path Lost is found through advanced scan. Those files generally lose their original names but the contents are still intact and more likely to be opened after full scan.

 

Reconstructed

Files found through advanced scan. Those files are listed by file type. If you find the previous tow folders can not recover your file, you can directly check this folder, and it is likely to see your data in this folder.They are founded with sector by sector scan by our software.

 

It is highly recommended to save the scan session file and that will be helpful in case of any interruption happens during the recovery process. For how to export the scan session, please click here.

What is Type?
 
Under the type. All the file has been rebuild with file type folder, if you only wish to recover the file type after scan or recovery the unsaved file, you can go with this location and start to recovery.


 
How to Search for Your Need Files

1. Using the search box properly can save you a lot of time on filtering the files from the massive file folders. If you know the name of the files you are looking for, you can type in any keywords combination to display all the files that are associated with these keywords only.



 

2. Although the file lose its original name, but the file size would still be the same. Thus, we can try to locate the files in another way: Input the file extension in the search box and it will give you a result that associated with that file type. List the those found files by size and be focus on the missing file with the same size as the one you were not able to be opened from the previous folder.

 

3. If that file is still not opened, please go through the files in File Path Lost folder. Those files are reorganized by our software after scanning the device information on the disk. You will see the files in different types more intuitively.

 

 
4. If the files under File Path Lost are not recoverable, then please go through the files in Reconstructed.



5. The file Filter option will also be helpful. For example, you can choose to display the file by last modification date, type or size.


 

We also offer remote assistance service to help user filter a large amount of scan result more efficiently. If you need that, please contact us via Livechat or support@easeus.com, we will arrange a remote session as soon as we can.