Then, first look at the largest LVM volume if there are no LVM volumes listed, look at the largest MD RAID volume.
With a set of drives from a NAS, you should connect all the drives at the same time, start ReclaiMe,Īnd let it finish Looking for Linux MD volumes and Looking for Linux LVM volumes. ReclaiMe will automatically look for MD-RAID and LVM records when started. Modern NASes typically use MD-RAID or LVM (Logical Volume Management) to organize data on the drives.
Running the software against an entire physical hard drive with multiple partitions will not work - recovered data will be incomplete. If there are several partitions on a single hard drive, recovering all the data off the hard drive requires a separate pass for each filesystem on the hard drive. ReclaiMe File Recovery recovers data of one filesystem at a time. Several partitions located on a single physical drive Tips for the most common cases are provided below.
Sometimes it is difficult to identify your device in the device list of ReclaiMe File Recovery software. The double click on the drive starts the analysis (has the same effect if you selected the drive and then clicked the Start button).
Whether the drive is healthy or not - for all the devices according to the color of the corresponding icon.Connection type ("USB" for USB devices).Filesystem type - is displayed for all the devices if ReclaiMe File Recovery was able to determine the filesystem type.Volume label - for the volumes (logical disks) if such a label exists.Size - for the logical and physical drives.Model name - for the logical and physical drives.What information about the device ReclaiMe can give you: Thumbdrives, and external drives in USB enclosure, (cameras, mobile phones, MP3-players, PDAs) or through the card reader, These devices typically include the memory cards connected through the devices USB devices - the devices connected to the computer via USB.The devices are grouped into the sections on the screen: Red icon color indicates that a hard drive (or one of the drives in a complex volume) is faulty. Gray color means that a device is in good condition which corresponds to a normal (working) state The program selects the color of the icon for a particular device according to the self-diagnostics data. Note that when searching for the available devices, ReclaiMe File Recovery gathers a device self-diagnostics information as well. for a device connected via USB, FireWire, or eSATA ReclaiMe uses specific icon for each device type:
Preferably, you should save the files to a directly connected drive, most often an external USB drive.Īlternatively, you can save the files to another NAS, but you need to map a shared folder to a local drive using Windows Explorer first.All the devices found are displayed in the Device list (you need to be an administrator of the computer to see all the devices). It can be one more NAS, a custom-built RAID (hardware or software), or a bunch of external hard drives.