Volume Scan

[uberti45ss]

I installed a second harddrive on my puter for backup purposes. It is a 500 gig Western Digital. I formated it with 3 partitions. One partition with about 248 gig or half of the harddrive and split the other 2 partition with the remaining gig's. I did a backup of my c-drive on one partition and copied a lot of music and also pictures of family and vacation's on one of the other partitions (drives).
Now the begining of my problem. Not thinking, (which I am always doing) :D I did a restore of my computer which only came with the one 80 gig harddrive in it. Well I didn't unplug the 500 giger before doing the restore and it does not recognize it with the 3 partitions or as 3 drives now.
When I used Zar to scan for volumes, they showed back up.
I highlited a volume and scanned for files. It found some and I copied them to a folder on my good drive. I would not let me go back to scan one of the other volumes for files there. The back button would only let me go back to the volume I had just scanned. Do I have to do a complete scan for volumes again or is there a way around this. It takes about 5 hours for the Volume scan.:eek:

Thanks and regards, Fred

[Alexey V. Gubin]

You scan one volume per run. The result of a scan for a volumes is not saved anywhere. If you rememberr the sizes of these volumes more or less exactly, you can enterr these values manually without rescan, as described here - http://www.z-a-recovery.com/man-partn-manual.htm. Otherwise it is a rescan.

[uberti45ss]

Thanks for your quick reply Alexey. I will follow your instructions and the link too. :)

Regards, Fred

[uberti45ss]

Hi Alexey,

I just wanted to let you know that I retrieved all the files that I wanted. I went and reformatted the 500gig harddrive and just for the heck of it, I tried Zar again and it worked so good it pulled the files out faster than it did the first time. I know you would not recommend that but it did work.
The original harddrive that came in this computer crashed on me about 1 1/2 years ago. Within the next couple of weeks I am going to install it as the slave and see if I can get any thing off of it. I took it to a fellow that works out of his house and he just replaced the harddrive and restored it with the orignal OS and program CD's I had to send off for. Said he tried to retrieve some data but could not get any. I don't know what kind of program, if any, he used. Ill try it with Zar and if nothing happens I'll reformat it and try it again. Will let you know what happens

Thanks for you help and a great program.....

Regards, Fred :)

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Reformatting the drive just removes part of the original data from the drive, replacing it with blanks. So the processing may be faster, because less data remains on the drive to process. However, there is a risk that formatting removes some part of the data which is actually needed for recovery. In many cases luck has it so nothing important gets cleaned, but still we do not recommend it for general use.