Photorescue Quick Startup Guide
	The recommended operating systems are Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You may get good results In Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millenium or Windows NT but not all of Photorescue’s features will be available on these operating systems. 
	
	The recommended reader is a USB or Firewire external card reader. Again, you may get good results using Photorescue directly on the camera but not all of Photorescue’s features will be accessible in all cameras and some features will never be available in any camera.

First Run
	The first time Photorescue is run, it should be run with the default options, on the drive letter that represents your media or directly on the device in physical mode if not drive letter has been assigned to your media. If your pictures are recovered, that’s all there is to it : the full version of Photorescue will allow you to save the recovered pictures.

Second Run
	If the first run has been unsuccessful or if you think there are more pictures that should be recovered from the media, do a second run with the following options.

		Physical or Logical Drive.
		Expert Mode ticked
	
	On the second option screen

		Either the card size as detected by the program or input the card size.
		Ignore FAT & Directories ticked.
	
	If the computer locks up during the card size determination phase, it is probably because the card suffers from physical defects. This is a non-recoverable error. Reboot, uncheck the “Determine the Card Size” option and make an image backup of the card before going any further. Attempt the above operations on the card image.

More complex cases
	The procedures outlined above will handle the vast majority of cases where data is still present on the card. If they don’t recover, choose the Graph the Input option from the file menu and get a graphical display on the data on your card.

	ALL BLACK : the card contains no data. No recovery by any mean is possible. This situation arises after an in-camera format on some cameras.

	STRIPED BLACK & GREEN : the card contains data, but either a hardware failure or a driver problem is preventing it from being completely read. This situation might be recoverable, but needs physical intervention. Please contact a data-recovery company.

	GREEN : the card contains data. Feel free to contact our tech support.