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Scan for missing volumesWhen a volume is deleted from the partition table, or the partition chain
gets
corrupt, it will be inaccessible but the corresponding boot sector may remain
intact. Partition scan procedure looks through the volume locating such an
"orphan" boot sectors. The parameters of the volume are then considered for each
of these boot sectors, and the volumes that look reasonably valid are added to
the partition view.
To perform a scan, right click anywhere in the partition list, then select
"Scan for missing volumes".
Be advised of the two limitations of the process
- Partition scan might bring up a number of "phantom" volumes. This is
because boot sectors are occasionally saved in the data area of the volume
(for example, AUTOCHK.EXE Windows NT file system checker contains several
boot sector templates in its code). ZAR can not determine if the
boot sector is genuine or represents a "phantom" volume, so everything gets
shown for your review.
- RAID or spanned volumes cannot be located this way (with the exception
of RAID1 "half-mirror" members), since volume boot sectors do not contain
any information about RAID array layout. First member of the RAID or spanned
volume (actually containing the boot sector) will typically be found and
listed, but attempting the analysis run against the volume defined in such a
way will fail.
Zero Assumption Recovery lets you laugh last.
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34 hours 3 min left
This small piece of software, within minutes of downloading,
made me the happiest guy in the world.
My camera did something weird to my SmartMedia card, rendering it useless.
Upon card insertion, the camera and subsequent computers asked if I wished to format the card.
I did NOT format the card, because I had just spent 2 hours taking promo pictures for my business
in lots of different locations, and figured SOMEbody could figure it out...
[...] When I found this program, although it took a minute or two to figure out which "number"
went with my USB SmartMedia reader, I clicked a few buttons, and this program went right to work.
It took about 5-10 seconds per picture to recover - I was ELATED!
Thank you for providing this piece of software for free.
I figure the least I could do was come back to say thank you.
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