Interface Introduction to MiniTool Power Data Recovery [MiniTool Wiki]
Top and Left Menu
1 - Register | Enter your license key to activate MiniTool Power Data Recovery. |
2 - Bootable Media | This is to help you create a bootable media with MiniTool Power Data Recovery built-in Bootable Media Builder so as to recover files when PC won’t boot. (Also learn how to boot from created bootable media .) |
3 - Support | For any questions, feel free to contact MiniTool support team. |
4 - More | Change your preferred language, get online help, learn backup strategy, help us translate, view the software information, or send us feedback. |
5 - This PC | Display all detected drives and devices. Let you choose a location to scan. |
6 - Utilities | Get more excellent tools from MiniTool Software. |
7 – Scan Settings | Show or hide the search result during the scan; specify file systems to scan; specify file types to scan. |
8 – Expand or Collapse | Expand or collapse the left menu bar. |
This PC
1 - Logical Drives | Show all partitions on this PC, including all partitions on local disk , external hard disk , and removable disk drive. Also include lost partitions and unallocated space. |
2 - Devices | Click Devices tab and select the whole device to scan if you want. |
3 - Refresh | Manually refresh the drives or devices list. |
4 – Drive/Device List | List of all detected drives or devices on your PC. |
5 - Specific Location or Load Recovery Result | Choose to recover data from Desktop, Recycle Bin, or any specified location. Load a previous recovery result (.rss file) manually provided that you have exported a scan result in advance. |
Recovery Results
1 - Show Lost Files | Only display the deleted/lost/raw files. |
2 - Find | Find files by inputting continuous keywords of the file name. For a more accurate finding, you can choose to match case and match word. |
3 - Filter | Specify the file name/extension, file size, file creation/modification date to view only the desired files from the scanning result. You can also customize this software to display deleted files/lost files/normal files or not from the scanning result. |
4 - Preview | Preview up to 70 types of files to know if you are choosing the right file to recover. |
5 - Export Scan Result | Export the current scan result to a .rss file so that you can manually load this result for a quick file recovery. |
6 - Path | Show scan result by tree structure. |
7 - Type | Show scan results by file types. |
8 - Preview | Same as 4. |
9 - Back | Back to the main interface. |
10 - Save | Save the recovered files to a preferred location. |