A 'Files to Recovery' pane asks you to 'drop files which you want to recover', and if you drag your files there, launch and step through the 'Export Wizard' the files are all saved to your chosen drive. Still, it only takes a few seconds to figure out the official alternative. You can’t double-click a file to open it directly, for instance, and although dragging and dropping a file to your desktop looks like it might work (the mouse cursor changes correctly) nothing gets copied. Retrieving these files is a little more awkward than it should be.

A chart showed us which types of files were using the most space on the drive, and we were able to browse folders on the drive and click images and a few simple file types to preview them. A log unhelpfully suggested this was because of an unsupported file system.ĭouble-clicking the partitions delivered better results.

We tried double-clicking one of our system’s 'Physical drives' and an error message told us 'can’t open disk - check the disk and try again'. There’s no general Windows file system driver included, unfortunately, so mounted drives won’t appear inside Explorer: they’re only accessible from inside the program.ĭiskInternals Linux Reader opens with a list of your current partitions and drives.

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