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Using SuperScan to detect deleted and damaged partitions

How to Launch SuperScan
How to Filter SuperScan Results
How to Search SuperScan Results for Files and Folders
How to Save SuperScan Results
How to Open SuperScan results

Use SuperScan when trying to recover a partition or logical drive that you know has been deleted or damaged. In other words, if you do not see a logical drive listed under a device node in the Local System Devices list, it is time to use SuperScan. 

SuperScan processes the whole surface of the physical device searching for all possible logical drives and partitions, whether they are existing, damaged or deleted. If a partition cannot be found, SuperScan keeps searching.  SuperScan reads each disk sector and looks for not only the boot sector, but also tries to reconstruct the drive structure, based on residual clues to the drive's system structures that remain on the disk surface. This is a very slow process and it usually gives much better results than QuickScan. When SuperScan finds data and the deleted or damaged file or folder is not fragmented, the SuperScan process can detect files by matching template patterns to the found data.

Note

After you run a SuperScan, you may find a virtual folder named Files Recognized by Signatures. This folder contains file data that was detected based on templates of commonly used file types (JPG, BMP, etc...). Files in this folder have been renamed because no file header was detected. If the file data is unfragmented, there is a good chance that you can recover the data in these files.

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