PHYSICAL DRIVE RECOVERY

Your drive.
Your recovery.

Scan a connected physical drive through PhotoRec. No disk image required.

Keep the affected drive unused. Save to a different physical disk.This mode reads the source and saves recovered files as they are found. It can find existing and deleted files; original names and folders may be lost. Recovery is not guaranteed. Do not scan a drive that is clicking, disconnecting or physically failing. The running Windows system disk is blocked.

01 PHYSICAL SOURCE

Select the affected drive

Physical drive

HDD, SSD, USB and memory cards exposed as Windows physical disks. Drives must be readable and unlocked. Windows Storage Spaces and virtual disks are excluded.

Whole-disk carving supports deleted files and formatted volumes if their content remains. Overwrites, TRIM, encryption and fragmentation can prevent recovery.

02 OUTPUT LOCATION

Choose where to recover

Destination type

No destination selected

Cloud folders need your provider's desktop sync app and local free space. This app cannot confirm remote uploads. Network shares and unverifiable volume mappings are blocked.

I checked the drive's identity and authorize recovery to the selected destination.

03 RECOVERY SESSION

Ready

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PhotoRec's separate console shows detailed scan progress and any prompts. This dashboard shows actual files found, without estimating a completion percentage. A finished process does not guarantee all files were recovered.

Recovered filename	Bytes

List displays up to 200 files; counts cap at 10,000. Open the output folder for all results. Validate recovered documents before relying on them.

Your drive.Your recovery.

Select the affected drive

Choose where to recover

Ready

Your drive.
Your recovery.