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Thanks! That's the web page where I found Puran ;) I'll check some other options.

Ah, thanks for the info. In the meantime I have been trying with a program called Puran. It has found over 700,000 files. The transferring though is taking a very long time; about 3% in 6 hrs. Also it has renamed all the files, which is okay for image files where there is a preview, but I will have to listen to all the audio files to rename them. With the time this is taking I might abort the process and try an alternative software. I don't need software or Windows files, and there's no way of filtering them before transferring using Puran.

Thanks for your response. The found files that are not being transferred are mostly indicated to be in excellent condition though. Is it possible that with the free version there is a limited amount of data that can be transferred, and that's why the small files were chosen, as, combined, they were under the limit?

Thanks very much for your response, nukecad. I didn't know which category of the forum was most suitable for this issue, hence I posted it twice.

I used Recuva to scan for image files on a hard drive (in an external port) with a bad block error and was presented with a list of about 94,000 files. I attempted to recover them to a folder on the desktop, but only the files under about 40kb were recovered (14,000). After the transfer, the other 80,000 were listed in a new window with the following error/reason for them not being recovered: A device which does not exist was specified. In the original list of recognised files on the failed hard drive in the Recuva program, these files are described as in excellent condition, but the recovery function will not transfer them to the desktop folder. I have tried recovering just 13 of them, but even this small amount is met with the same error message and won't transfer. How can I recover them?

I used Recuva to scan for image files on a hard drive with a bad block error (in an external port) and was presented with a list of about 94,000 files. I attempted to recover them to a folder on the desktop, but only the files under about 40kb were recovered (14,000). After the transfer, the other 80,000 were listed in a new window with the following error/reason for them not being recovered: A device which does not exist was specified. In the original list of recognised files in the Recuva program, these files are described as in excellent condition, but the recovery function will not transfer them to the desktop folder. How can I recover them?