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A data drive is a non-boot, non-system drive that only contains user programs and data. The procedure is straightforward and requires four steps as follows:
 Step 1: Protect the source drive.
To stop data from being written to a data drive, please do the following:
Stop using the computer for any activities other than data recovery.
Stop all background programs that may write to the data drive. For example if the drive holds an SQL database, stop SQL.
Do not download or install any software on the data drive.
Disable all shared folders on the data drive.
Step 2: Install File Scavenger®
Step 3: Purchase a license.
You can purchase a license at this time. For a Professional-Use license, purchase and download a license file onto the computer. For a Personal-Use license, run File Scavenger® and click Help, Licenses, Personal-Use license to display the Registration Code. This code is required to purchase a matching license key to activate the program.
You can also use File Scavenger in demo mode to determine if data can be recovered. In demo mode you can save recovered files up to 64 kilobytes. You can also display a picture file (files with the extensions BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, etc.) of any size in preview mode by right-clicking on in and click Preview.
 Step 4: Search and Recover.
Step 5: Validate results.
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