Easy-Undelete 3.0 can display a preview of the contents of deleted files, and can perform a partial recovery by allowing you to choose which clusters to restore. This is useful when the file contents was partially overwritten by new files, and you only need to restore the original parts.
To View the contents of a deleted file:
Select the deleted file in the right pane.
Select View as binary from the File menu or from the context menu.
The clusters comprising the file are listed on the left under File Clusters. Black cluster numbers represent unoccupied clusters, that probably still have their original content intact, and can be recovered; Red cluster numbers represent occupied clusters that had their contents overwritten and are not available for recovery.
To select clusters to restore:
In the File viewer dialog box, select the clusters you want to recover using the Shift or Ctrl keys.
Click on the Undelete selected button to recover the selected clusters.
To preview image files, see <Previewing deleted images>
Notes:
Even if a cluster is marked as unused, it could have already been used and freed since the original file was deleted. Therefore, even if the file condition is displayed as Good, and all clusters appear unoccupied, there is no guarantee that the recovered file would actually contain the original data.
Very small files (usually below 1 kilobyte) are often kept entirely in the file system records. The cluster list for these files will be empty.
On FAT volumes, the original cluster list cannot be reconstructed, and Easy-Undelete 3.0 must assume that deleted files were stored in consecutive clusters - even if this wasn't the case.