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When recovering basic MBR and GPT volumes, you can select the alignment method manually if the
automatic alignment does not satisfy you for some reason. The following options are available:
Select automatically - (Default) recommended. The software will automatically set the
appropriate alignment based on the source and target disk/volume properties.
Use the following options only if you absolutely need to.
CHS (63 sectors) - select this option if the recovered volume will be used under Microsoft
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (or earlier) on disks having 512 bytes per physical
sector.
VMware VMFS (64 KB) - select this option when recovering the volume as a VMware Virtual
Machine File System partition.
Vista alignment (1 MB) - select this option if the recovered volume will be used under
Windows operating systems starting with Windows Vista, or when recovering volumes to an
HDD or SSD drive that has a 4-KB sector size.
Custom - Specify the volume alignment manually. It is recommended that the value be a
multiple of the physical sector size.
Logical drive letter (for Windows only)
By default, the first unused letter will be assigned to the volume. To assign other letter, select the
desired letter from a drop-down list.
If you select the empty value, no letter will be assigned to the recovered volume, hiding it from the
OS. You should not assign letters to volumes that are inaccessible to Windows, such as to those other
than FAT and NTFS.
5.1.4.3 Selecting target location for files and folders
Where to recover
Destination
Select a location to recover the backed-up files to:
Original location
Files and folders will be recovered to the same path(s) as they are in the backup. For example,
if you have backed up all files and folders in C:\Documents\Finance\Reports\, the files will be
recovered to the same path. If the folder does not exist, it will be created automatically.
New location
Files will be recovered to the location that you specify in the tree. The files and folders will be
recovered without recreating a full path, unless you clear the Recover without full path
check box.
Overwriting
Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a file with the same name as in the
archive:
Overwrite existing files – this will give the file in the backup priority over the file on the hard
disk.
Overwrite an existing file if it is older – this will give priority to the most recent file
modification, whether it be in the backup or on the disk.
Do not overwrite existing files – this will give the file on the hard disk priority over the file in
the backup.
