Settings

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Restorer Ultimate settiongs may be specified on the Settings dialog box. To reach this box, click Options -> Settings on the Task List.

Main
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Main dialog box
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System Options

Enable Write

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate enables you to write any changes made in the Text/Hexadecimal Editor.

Debug Mode

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate displays an additional command Create FS Snapshot on the shortcut menu for an object with a file system. An FS Snapshot contains system data for the file system only (file descriptions without file contents). If a problem appears, this snapshot can be sent to Restorer Ultimate technical support to identify the problem. This option greatly slows Restorer Ultimate.

Default HFS Code Page

Select the national encoding for the HFS partitions

Hints

Show All Warnings and Confirmations

If this checkbox is selected, Restorer Ultimate shows all warning messages for which the Never show again check box has been selected.

Disable All Warnings and Confirmations

If this checkbox is selected, Restorer Ultimate does not show anymore all warning messages for which the Never show again check box has been selected.

Raw File Search
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Raw File Search dialog box

You may specify which Known File Types will be enabled/disabled by default.

Log
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Log dialog box

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Type


File

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate logs all events with recovered files.

File System

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate logs all events with the file system.

Partition

If this check box selected, Restorer Ultimate logs all events with partitions.

Recover

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate logs all events with the recovering processes.

Disk

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate logs all events with disks.

Network

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate logs all events with network operation.

Severity

 

Error

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate adds error messages into its log.

Warning

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate adds warning messages into its log.

Information

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate adds information messages into its log.

Success

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate adds success messages into its log.

NEVER WRITE A LOG FILE ON THE DISK FROM WHICH YOU RECOVER DATA!!!

Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.

Save log to file

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate writes its log into a log file specified in the File location: field.

Rewrite/Append

Select it if you want to rewrite a log file, or append log information to this file.

Save as

You may select the encoding for the log file. You may select ANSI, UNICODE, or UTF8.

Note: If in the Recover dialog box the Condense successful restoration events check box is selected, the Log will display only Error, Warning, and Information event messages.

Bad Sectors
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Bad Sectors dialog box
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Default read attempts

Specifies a default value for I/O Tries, or how many times Restorer Ultimate will try to read a bad sector.

Pattern to fill bad blocks

Specifies a pattern Restorer Ultimate will use to fill bad sectors in files to recover, in images, or when showing data in the Text/Hexadecimal Editor. You may specify the pattern either in the ANSI or Hex data format.

Note: Restorer Ultimate will never ever try to write anything on the disk from which data is to recover or an image is to create.