5.1. Recovering Data from Existing Volume

With Stellar Data Recovery you can recover your deleted or lost data from the hard drive or external storage media connected to the system. Almost all data of the volume can be found by performing recovery on selected volume or removable media. NTFS, FAT, BTRFS, exFAT, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, Linux, HFS, HFS+, and APFS file systems are supported by the application.

To Scan Existing Volume:

1. Run Stellar Data Recovery.

2. From What To Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. All Data or Office Documents, Emails, Audio, Photos and Videos, you want to recover.

3. Click Next.

4. From Recover From screen, select the existing volume under the Connected Drives option from which you want to recover your data.

Note: If you are scanning a drive that is encrypted using BitLocker, you will be prompted to either enter the Bitlocker password/Recovery Key or Select a Bitlocker Startup Key (.BEK file). Use any one of the following steps, to initiate the scan process: 

• Enter the Bitlocker password/Recovery Key in the text box given and click OK.

• Alternatively, choose Select Bitlocker Startup Key (.BEK) radio button. Click  to browse and select the .BEK file and click OK.

Tip: Stellar Data Recovery shows you the temperature and health details of connected drives. To view these, take the mouse cursor to the particular drive in Recover From screen. The Temperature and Health details are displayed inside a tooltip as shown below:

5. Click Scan. A screen showing the scanning process is displayed. 

Note: To view the scanning details, click on the Click here link next to the Scanning details at the bottom of the screen.

Note: Click on Stop or Pause/ Resume button to stop or resume the scanning process. To save the scan information when the scan stops during the process, click here.

Note: To resume recovery using the saved scan information, click here.

Note: If the quick scan does not find all the lost or deleted files, you can perform a Deep scan to search for more files. To do this, click the 'Click here' link next to Deep Scan at the bottom of the screen once the scanning is completed.

6. Once the scanning process is completed, details of the files and folders found are displayed in a dialog box as shown below:

7. For information on how to preview and recover the scanned data, see Previewing Scan Results and Saving the Recovered Files.

Note: If you wish to save the scanned information and resume the recovery process at a later stage, see Saving the Scan Information.

 

Deep Scan an Existing Volume:

Deep scan finds lost data missed by the quick scan, especially when it is difficult to find or scan. Selecting a volume shows the Deep Scan option, enabling you to start without the quick scan. 

1. Run Stellar Data Recovery.

2. From What To Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. All Data or Office Documents, Emails, Audio, Photos and Videos, you want to recover.

3. Click Next.

4. From Recover From screen, select a drive from Connected Drives.

5. Enable Deep Scan toggle button which is on the bottom left of your screen.

Note: If you are scanning a drive that is encrypted using BitLocker, you will be prompted to either enter the Bitlocker password/Recovery Key or Select a Bitlocker Startup Key (.BEK file). Use any one of the following steps, to initiate the scan process:  

• Enter the Bitlocker password/Recovery Key in the text box given and click OK.

• Alternatively, choose Select Bitlocker Startup Key (.BEK) radio button. Click  to browse and select the .BEK file and click OK.

6. Click Scan. A screen appears that shows the scanning process.

Note: To view the scanning details, click on the Click here link next to the Scanning details at the bottom of the screen.

Note: Click on Stop or Pause/ Resume button to stop or resume the process.

Note: You can also perform a deep scan after a quick scan by clicking the 'Click here' link next to the Deep scan at the bottom of the screen.

7. Once the scanning process is completed, details of the files and folders found are displayed in a dialog box.

8. For information on how to preview and recover the scanned data, see Previewing Scan Results and Saving the Recovered Files.

Note: If you wish to save the scanned information and resume the recovery process at a later stage, see Saving the Scan Information.

Note: You can select only one volume at a time for recovery. Deep scan is applicable only for connected drive. You can disable deep scan if you want to perform Quick scan.