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Open volume

To browse, view, edit, and recover files and folders you should open a volume where files and folders were/are located. Depending on the volume damage level you should use one of the following methods to open the volume.

1. If the volume is not damaged and accessible by a letter (C:, D:, ...), you may open it via the dialog box "Select drive", check the option "Logical Disks/Volumes" (or "DOS Services" in the version for DOS). This method is appropriate to recover deleted files.

2. If there is no volume letter or it is not possible to open the volume using the 1st method, you should select a physical device where the volume is located ("Select drive" – "Physical Devices", under DOS – "ATA Interface", "BIOS Services"). Then select the volume in the dialog box "Partitions" and press "Open Volume".

3. If it is not possible to open the volume from the dialog box Partitions or there is no volume you need, or the volume does not contain files you need, then try "NTFS or FAT Search" depending on the volume file system. Read "NTFS/FAT Search" section for more efficient recovery in this case.

It is also possible to open the image of a volume or entire drive.

Also, the volume may be opened from the Editor Window when view the volume boot sector or its copy as "NTFS/FAT/FAT32 Boot sector".

The previous volume is closed when the new volume is opened.