[UFS Explorer Professional Recovery 5.19.1 Install
Jamar Lizarraga
The software download page is located at ufsexplorer.com/ufs-explorer-professional-recovery. This page also contains references to the information about software updates, technical details, including program specifications.
To install a new copy of the software or update the program, you should follow the steps of fresh software installation. In case of an update from an older software version, there is no necessity to remove the older software. Yet, a rollback to the previous software version requires uninstallation of the newer one. Other editions of UFS Explorer can be installed along with UFS Explorer Professional Recovery.
Having started the installation process, you will be prompted to choose the language of the user interface which will be used as the language of both the software installer and user manual. If the software is updated from a previous version, the installer will automatically pick previous language preferences. After that, the installer will show you the End User License Agreement (EULA) for acceptance. You will be able to continue the installation procedure only after EULA is accepted. At the next step, the software will prompt for the target folder to which the application will be installed. In case of a software update from a previous version, the folder of the previous software version will be set as the installation folder by default.
Then the installer will prompt for the name of the "Start" menu product group (the default one is "Data Recovery"). At this stage the installer finishes collecting necessary information and starts the installation process. After it is completed, you will be able to run the software from the final window of the software installation wizard. You may also start the software using its shortcut in the "Start" menu ('All programs', then the software group (the default one is "Data Recovery") and then "UFS Explorer Professional Recovery".
To start the software, you may use a shortcut in the Window Manager main menu (under "System utilities"). If you are going to run the software as a local administrator, you may type the application start command.
Activation of the program means purchasing a license for the full software version and its registration. For more information concerning the difference between the trial/evaluation version and the full one, go to the 4.2 Licensing Information section. You can choose between two license types, depending on the purpose of the software employment: Corporate and Commercial licenses are available, each having special conditions of the product usage. Having purchased a license, you will get a sequence of symbols, which will be sent to the e-mail address provided in the purchase form.
The program itself may notify you about the availability of an updated version, which will be downloaded and installed after you press the "Install" button. You may also go to sysdevlabs.com/store, download the upgraded installation package of the needed software and simply run it as described in the Setup section. You will not need to enter the registration code again, if you have one, as the application remembers it. In case your software version is up-to-date, the installation manager will show the corresponding message.
Windows users can remove the software with the help of the standard "Uninstall" feature. For this open the Control Panel, go to the "Programs" category and select "Programs and Features". Alternatively, you can open Explorer and enter "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" in the address bar. The name of the software for removal is "UFS Explorer Professional Recovery".
Still another way to uninstall the software is using "Software Packages management". To launch it open the "Start" menu, go to "All programs" and choose the software group (the default one is "SysDev Laboratories"). Run the utility using its shortcut and uninstall the needed application.
As has already been mentioned in sections 1.1 Overview and 1.3 Features, this application is a professional tool intended to be utilized by specialists in the field data recovery to restore data lost from various devices due accidental deletion, formatting, file system damage after hardware or software failures, etc. The software contains instruments for data analysis and its manual modification which means that incorrect actions taken while using the software may lead to permanent data loss. In this section the peculiarities of software usage are described and illustrated with examples. If you have questions concerning the implementation of certain procedures, please refer to the Appendix section to check whether the question has already been answered there.
Right after its launch, the program is ready for use with the most optimal default settings. However, the user can modify these settings for more efficient software utilization in the "Settings" tab opened with the "Settings" button in the upper right corner of the interface.
Each value can be changed by pressing the "Change value" button next to it. All the defined settings will be stored in the corresponding user profile folder in a special "ufsx" file. The software will not save any data to the operating system registry or configuration files (except uninstallation information, if applicable).
This setting defines the target folder for the "View" tool of Explorer. The software will save all temporary files to this folder. More information can be found in the description of Explorer. The changes will be applied immediately.
The settings included into this section define the default encoding in which symbolic byte representation in Hexadecimal Viewer is displayed, the maximum number of bytes copied via the system clipboard and the maximum number of bytes used for "undo" in Hexadecimal Editor.
The settings avaliable in this section establish the maximum number of objects presented on a single "page" of Explorer and the maximum number of search results returned by a single search operation. Lower values will save memory and increase speed while higher values will allow manipulating more objects. The recommended values can be found in the hint section: to see them, select the header of the corresponding field. The changes will be applied to all the subsequent related operations. In addition, it is possible to set up the default action for the "View" tool: the actions include opening in the internal viewer or copying the file to the temporary files folder and launching it using the default associated application.
This section contains all the necessary settings related to the process of copying recovered files: the default action taken in case of presence of duplicate files, whether such conflicts will be logged by the software, what will be done if a file or folder cannot be created at the specified target location, in which format recovered encrypted NTFS (EFS) files will be saved and whether extended attributes will be recovered (for HFS+).
This section includes settings in regard to reading and assembly of RAID sets: whether the software will detect attached RAID and try assembling known configurations automatically, update incomplete RAID when the missing constituent is detected or attempt to read RAID asynchronously when it is possible.
To get access to the content of a storage, activate the required disk partition in the storages navigation tree or choose the "Explore file system" option in its context menu. The software will display the "Explorer" tab for the chosen file system in the workspace. Using explorer-style navigation you may navigate to a specific folder, find and select the required files using the "Define permanent selection" tool and save them using the "Save selection" tool from the "Explorer" tab toolbar or using the "Save this object to..." context menu option for each of the files.
Any file can be also "opened" after its activation with a keyboard or mouse. This will either copy the file to the folder located at the "Temporary files path" and open it with the default associated program installed on your computer or open it in the internal viewer in a new tab depending on the preferences specified in the software settings.
The tree includes two major containers: "Logical disks" which holds all available logical volumes and "Connected storages" which lists all connected physical devices, disk images, complex storages and spanned volumes.
The "Virtual disk or disk image" subitem allows opening any supported disk image or virtual disk file. In addition, it can also be used to open a previously saved RAID configuration and Runtime Software Virtual Image files (*.vim-files).
The "The disk image of chunk files" subitem allows spanning several disk image files and may be useful in cases, when a single disk image is split into several parts, for instance, because its size is very large.
The "Device by name" subitem allows opening a physical storage by specifying its OS-specific device name. In Microsoft Windows, you may open a volume by supplying its mount point (e.g. "E:"). To access physical drives you have to run the software as a local administrator.
The storages opened in UFS Explorer can be closed with the help of the "Close storage" tool from the toolbar above the storages navigation tree or the "Close storage" option from the storage context menu.
The "Refresh" item from the main menu resets the tree of attached storages: the list of attached storages gets updated and will include all detected storages, even the ones which have been previously closed (except for closed disk images and manually assembled RAID). This operation does not apply to the tabs which have already been opened in UFS Explorer: a storage is closed after the last tab related to this storage is closed.
In case OS used software RAID, it will be displayed as a set of its components. To open such RAID use the "Device by name" subitem of the "Open" menu item the and open the RAID by specifying the device name or mount point (such as "E:" under Windows or "/dev/lvm/vg0" under Linux).
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