Make sure you have enough free space on your Good Device. You need space for more than just your lost data. Here's a list of everything that may need to be saved to the Good Device before and during a recovery session:
- The lost data.
You should plan on recovering at least as much as was lost on the Bad
Device. And you may need even more free space than what was lost because
VirtualLab™ may recover files and folders you intentionally deleted in
the past. If you decide to recover all recovered folders and files,
you will have more files than what you used to 'see' before the failure/data
loss.
- VirtualLab™ Client
application. If you are using a single computer as the Host Computer
and the Good Device (that is, you plan to save your lost data to the
same computer on which you have installed VirtualLab™ Client), you must
have enough room for the application itself. It takes up only a few
megabytes of space, so it probably won't create any memory issues. Regardless,
it never hurts to consider those few megabytes when checking your available
memory.
- Temporary files
created by VirtualLab™ and files that track your session progress.
During a recovery session, VirtualLab™ creates temporary working
files on the Good Device. These files could take up dozens of megabytes
of memory but usually average around 20-50MB.
If you want to save just a small amount of data, you can use a floppy disk as the destination drive; otherwise, you need to use a local or network drive. If you don't have enough free space, you may want to switch to a Host Computer or Good Device with more free space.