CuteRecovery Help - Recover Files from Formatted/RAW/Corrupted Partition

In many cases, partition (it has a drive letter) may become inaccessible, for example, when you open a partition, it prompts "The disk in drive * is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?", "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable", "The volume does not contain a recognized file system", "The parameter is incorrect" or the partition becomes RAW format. Files in the partition are not accessible. Main reasons are as follows: USB flash disk or external hard drive is pulled out directly without clicking Safely Remove, virus attack, system halt or sudden power failure, etc. Besides, if a partition is formatted by accident, its files can not be seen or accessed. The common feature of these situations is that the partition becomes inaccessible or formatted but the partition is not lost. When these happen, you can use CuteRecovery to recover files.

To start recovering files, please click the button "Recover Files From Partition" on the main interface as below:

This function is divided into 3 steps: Select Partition, Select Files to Recover and Save Recovered Files.

Please select the partition that needs recovering files, and its information is displayed on the right part, as shown below:

If you've recovered files and saved scan progress before, you can click the button "Load Progress" to continue the scanning.

Please make sure the selected partition is the one you want to recover, and then click "Next" button. CuteRecovery starts to scan the partition .

During scanning, CuteRecovery displays lost files of the partition, and the way it displays files is similar to Windows File Explorer: On the left part is the directory and on the right the file list.

There is a check box on the left of every file and folder, and you can select files and folders you want to recover and click the "Recover" button.

Tip: When you click a file, there will be a thumbnail preview image on the lower part of the panel. Double-click the file and you can preview file content on a pop-up file preview window. CuteRecovery supports to preview pictures, Microsoft Office documents, PDF files, video, audio and text files, and you can easily check whether lost files correct before copying files.

Besides, you can filter files by setting the name type, file attribute, file size and modify time. Set your options and then click the "Filter" button.

CuteRecovery provides two ways of copying out the recovered files. One is the context menu. After selecting the files and folders to be copied, right click the mouse button, a context menu will pop up. Then select "Copy to" and set a target folder to start copying. For more details, please refer to "Copy Files by Context Menu".

Another way to copy recovered files is to follow the wizard. After selecting the files and folders you want to recover, click the "Recover" button. CuteRecovery will take you into the dialog "Select Target Folder", as follows:

Click the "Select Folder" button after specify a target folder, and CuteRecovery starts to copy files.

If you set the target folder to the partition which is recovering files, CuteRecovery will pop up the following warning message "The folder you selected is on the drive which is recovering files or partitions. The drive may be damaged if you copy files to it. Please select a folder in another drive."

Please select another target folder.

CuteRecovery is copying recovered data to the specified location.

File copying is completed:

When file copying is finished, the "Report" and "Complete" buttons show up. You can click the "Report" button to open the "File Copy Report" dialog box. Here you can click the "Save" button to save the copy report to a text file.