About exploring recovery points

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
You can use Veritas System Recovery to explore files in a recovery point. You mount the recovery point and assign it a drive letter so that it is visible from Windows Explorer.
You can perform the following tasks on the assigned drive:
  • Run ScanDisk (or CHKDSK).
  • Perform a virus check.
  • Copy folders or files to an alternate location.
  • View disk information about the drive, such as used space and free space.
  • Run programs existing within a mounted recovery point.
Within a mounted recovery point, programs that you run cannot rely on any registry values. The programs also cannot rely on COM interfaces, Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs), or other similar dependencies.
You can set up a mounted drive as a shared drive. Users on a network can connect to the shared drive and restore files and folders from the recovery point.
You can mount one or more recovery points at a time. The drives remain mounted until you unmount them or you restart the computer. Mounted drives do not take up extra hard-disk space.
You do not need to mount a drive to restore the files or folders from within a recovery point.
All security on the NTFS volumes remains intact when they are mounted.
See Exploring a recovery point through Windows Explorer.
See Dismounting a recovery point drive.
See Viewing the drive properties of a recovery point.