Interface Introduction to MiniTool Power Data Recovery [MiniTool Wiki]

Top and Left Menu

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

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

recovery results interface

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.
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