Exploring a recovery point through Windows Explorer

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
When you explore a recovery point, Arctera System Recovery mounts the recovery point as a drive letter and opens the recovery point in Windows Explorer.
For each drive that is included in the recovery point, a new mounted drive letter is created. For example, if your recovery point contains backups of drives C and D, two newly mounted drives appear (for example, E and F). The mounted drives include the original drive labels of the drives that were backed up.
To explore a recovery point through Windows Explorer
  1. On the Tasks menu, click Manage Backup Destination.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Select a recovery point set that you want to explore and in the Range column, double-click the date range.
In the Explore Recovery Pointsdialog box, select the required recovery points and then clickOK.
  • Select the recovery point or recovery point set that you want to explore, and then click Explore.
If you select a recovery point set, in the Explore Recovery Pointsdialog box, select the required recovery points and then clickOK.
See About exploring recovery points.