Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
A. Can OtraUnit Data Recovery harm my disk?
B. Can fragmentation of the drive affect the result of the recovery?
C. Can I recover data on a Flash Card?or SmartMedia?
D. Can I recover my data after performing FDISK?
E. Can I recover data from a formatted disk?
F. Does OtraUnit Data Recovery also recover all NTFS permissions for a deleted file?
G. Does OtraUnit Data Recovery rescue every kind of file format or just some?
H. Does OtraUnit Data Recovery run in the background, monitoring your files as you create, save or delete them? In other words, will it only recover files that were lost after OtraUnit Data Recovery was installed?
I. For what are the recovered .$EFS files?
J. I cannot open the recovered files with software program applicable to the type of the file recovered. Why?
Can Pockect Data Recovery harm my disk?
As long as the drive is not physically damaged there is no risk in using the software. Pockect Data Recovery only reads from the drive, and does NOT write to it at any time by itself.
Can fragmentation of the drive affect the result of the recovery?
Fragmentation in NTFS should not effect the results of the recovery. Information about a file's allocation is stored in a MFT entry. However with the FAT file system, this information is stored in the FAT and this information will be lost after deleting, so the lower the fragmentation of the drive is, the higher the chance of a recovery is.
Can I recover data on a Flash Card?or SmartMedia?
Yes, that's possible, but your media has to be appear as a logical Windows drive. Look at you camera manufacturer if it supports a special driver software that will show the smart media as a logical Windows drive. If no driver is supported you can buy a memory card reader. There are several types: for notebooks (PC-CARD / PCMCIA) and for PCs (USB, IDE). Ask your local computer shop!
Can I recover my data after performing FDISK?
Even if your partitions have been deleted with FDISK, you can use Deep Scan and select a physical drive scan from Pockect Data Recovery and recover the data from the lost partition. Furthermore, even if you have created new partitions after removing the old ones, you can still recover your data with the Pockect Data Recovery.
Can I recover data from a formatted disk?
A disk can be formatted in three different ways: Quick, Standard and Low-Level (physical) format.

Quick Format enables you to quickly format a disk, by simply initializing the directory entry information in the root directory area and the FAT information. The data area during this proves to be still intact.

On the other hand, Standard Format examines the data area, and maps the bad sectors. Since each sector head must be read to determine whether it is bad, the process takes a substantial amount of time. If a bad sector is detected, clusters in that sector are marked in the FAT to prevent them from future usage. However, just like quick format, full format does not overwrite the data area, and the data content is preserved.

Finally, Low-Level Format modifies the surface molecule arrangement, initializes the entire disk, and records sector identifiers to each track (creating addresses to identify sectors within each track). All of the data contained in the disk is initialized, preventing any future recovery attempts.

If file system information such as directory entries or FAT is lost, the file cannot be opened by the Windows operating system. However, Pockect Data Recovery is capable of directly reading data from the data area to recover files after a quick or standard format.

For hard disks, a quick or standard format is generally carried out as a high-level format, where data areas are not overwritten. Therefore, even though the FAT or the root directory are initialized, Pockect Data Recovery can still recover the data remaining in the data area.

On the other hand, for disk media that cannot be partitioned with FDISK, such as a floppy disk, a standard format is comparable to a low-level (physical) format process, rendering the original data on the floppy as unrecoverable.
Does Pockect Data Recovery also recover all NTFS permissions for a deleted file?
No, it recovers the file information, but the privileges should be re-edited onto the file.
Does Pockect Data Recovery rescue every kind of file format or just some?
Pockect Data Recovery can recover all files, but the files may not have been overwritten.
Does Pockect Data Recovery run in the background, monitoring your files as you create, save or delete them? In other words, will it only recover files that were lost after Pockect Data Recovery was installed?
The program does not monitor any files. It get the files by examining the file system (so called on-disk format of the files). There the files are marked with special attributes and names. Recovering is simular: the programs scans the hard disk and searches for a special pattern: the stamp of a directory ('.' or '..') and then assumes a lost directory.
For what are the recovered .$EFS files?
These files are packed raw encrypted files that will be imported into a new NTFS file during saving. If the importing was successful, these files will be deleted automatically. If the file could not be imported (because it was not saved to a NTFS volume), you may save your files to a NTFS volume.
I cannot open the recovered files with software program applicable to the type of the file recovered. Why?
Your files were overwritten by other data. In this case there is no way to retrieve the data.