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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.
Step 4: Search and Recover.
Select a drive to search. Select a disk number (such as Disk 1) if there is no drive letter or if the drive has been deleted, resized, unsuccessfully merged or otherwise lost.
A Quick Search usually works well for searching a deleted or mildly corrupt drive, recovering accidentally deleted files or and for reconstructing a broken RAID or spanned volume. Use a Long Search to recover a reformatted drive, a badly corrupted volume or when a Quick Search is not effective. A Quick Search takes a few minutes to complete compared to a Long Search which may take several minutes to a few hours.
Recovered data must be saved to a drive other than the one holding the lost data. If the computer has insufficient free disk space, use a shared network folder on another computer, memory stick or external USB drive. You can also save a few gigabytes of data to the boot drive at a time and transfer it to a CD or DVD.
Step 5: Validate results.
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