Selecting file types to recover

This next wizard screen asks you to select the file types by placing a tick in the box next to the file type.

If you are running a "Fast File Search" or "Complete File Search"

Select the file types that you want to recover by placing a tick in the box next to each file. To maintain search speed, we suggest you select approximately 10 files at a time. Text and video files are the most resource intensive to locate. Run a separate search for these file types.

If the file types that you are trying to recover are not listed here, run a "Fast File Search" and look in the "other files" folder in the search results screen. If your file is not in this folder, then you will need to contact GetData to request specific support for this file type to be added to Recover My Files.

If you are running a "Complete Format Recover"

When you are running a "Fast Format Recover" the file selection window is not required. Your entire partition will be recovered with all file types.

When running a "Complete Format Recover" you are asked to use the default selected file types. These file types have already been selected by default, and are .doc, .xls, .ppt, .avi, .pdf, .jpg, .tif and .zip. Only add more file types if you did not have any of the default file types stored on your drive (for example, if you drive was full of music.mp3 fies). Adding additional file types is not required and will slow the search down. You will still recover all possible files and folders with full file and folder names with only the default files selected.

The default selected file types are use to locate the old Windows drive information. Once Recover My Files uses the default selected file types to narrow down on the location of this data.