Instead of displaying found files that can be recovered first to the user, it writes all recoverable files automatically to the target location. Please note that the program works different when it comes to recovery than other programs of its kind. The program identifies file types using signatures which it compares to the beginning of each data block on the drive.Ī technical explanation of how that is done in detail is provided on the official site. The scan may take a while depending mostly on the size and speed of the disk. Once done, hit the search button and wait until the process completes.
If you want, click on File Formats to disable file types you don't want recovered.Make sure it is not located on the same disk that is being processed by PhotoRec. Set a destination folder for recovered files.