I ran Recuva on my C drive and received a "bad allocation" error. It seems to work on my partition "I" and my external hard drive "G"
The error log is way too large to post or attach here (6.57MB). So I'm including only the 1st and last of the "[iNFO ] File record found" lines.
[2007-10-16 10:27:59] [iNFO ] Recuva v1.06.132
[2007-10-16 10:27:59] [iNFO ] System Info: MS Windows XP SP2, Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.00GHz, 1.5GB RAM, Diamond S9250 PCI 256 DDR
[2007-10-16 10:28:29] [iNFO ] OEM Name NTFS
[2007-10-16 10:28:29] [iNFO ] Reading MFT form 16
[2007-10-16 10:28:29] [iNFO ] Read from MFT: 122080 records total
[2007-10-16 10:28:29] [iNFO ] Boot sector:
61KQTlRGUyAgICAAAgEAAAAAAAAA+AAAPwD/AD8AAAAAAAAAgACAAGJ6yhgAAAAAEAAAAAAAAACU
Sg4AAAAAAAIAAAAIAAAAmrjA3PPA3Gz88fnS+jPAjtC8AHz7uMAHjtjoFgC4AA2OwDPbxgYOABDo
UwBoAA1oagLLihYkALQIzRNzBbn//4rxZg+2xkBmD7bRgOI/9+KGzcDtBkFmD7fJZvfhZqMgAMO0
QbuqVYoWJADNE3IPgftVqnUJ9sEBdAT+BhQAw2ZgHgZmoRAAZgMGHABmOwYgAA+COgAeZmoAZlAG
U2ZoEAABAIA+FAAAD4UMAOiz/4A+FAAAD4RhALRCihYkABYfi/TNE2ZYWwdmWGZYH+stZjPSZg+3
DhgAZvfx/sKKymaL0GbB6hD3NhoAhtaKFiQAiujA5AYKzLgBAs0TD4IZAIzABSAAjsBm/wYQAP8O
DgAPhW//Bx9mYcOg+AHoCQCg+wHoAwD76/60AYvwrDwAdAm0DrsHAM0Q6/LDDQpBIGRpc2sgcmVh
ZCBlcnJvciBvY2N1cnJlZAANCk5UTERSIGlzIG1pc3NpbmcADQpOVExEUiBpcyBjb21wcmVzc2Vk
AA0KUHJlc3MgQ3RybCtBbHQrRGVsIHRvIHJlc3RhcnQNCgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg6CzyQAAVao=
[2007-10-16 10:28:29] [iNFO ] Reading up to 125009920 bytes at 0
[2007-10-16 10:28:29] [iNFO ] File record found (2)
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [iNFO ] File record found (122067)
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] Exception: NtfsMftEntry.cpp(84) : Invalid MFT record detected
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [iNFO ] Reached the EOF
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [iNFO ] Building folders
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [iNFO ] Restoring tree
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [iNFO ] Building file map
[2007-10-16 10:28:44] [ERROR] bad allocation
Also, the files found on drives I and G such as Word, Excel and jpg files are unreadable even after recovery. Thanks for your help!
