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This information came from a working external USB hard drive where many different file types had been deleted. My attempt was to undelete those files and save them to a directory on my C drive.

I was able to place the recovered files on my C drive in the desired folder.

HOWEVER, they (many) are all in a (what appears to be) Windows backup file named data_backup.bkf

When I tried to restore the file using Windows restore it said that it did not recognize any of the files and therefore could not restore them.

I wonder why it placed them in this kind of file rather than placing them in the directory with their given file names in readable form. Your program reported them to be in excellent condition.

 

Should I run your program using different parameters or can you tell me how to extract these files from the recovered file.

Thanks

Tom

Yes, it was a deep scan. I saw hundreds of file names, most in Excellent condition, according to your program. However, when recovered, they did not recover as individual files. but as the afore mentioned.

[cant open recovered files]

Welcome to Piriform twade.

 

 

 

Well depending on how big the file is you could probably look at its contents with WordPad or Word. Did you know its a backup file you wanted to recover?

 

This information came from a working external USB hard drive where many different file types had been deleted. My attempt was to undelete those files and save them to a directory on my C drive.

I was able to place the recovered files on my C drive in the desired folder.

HOWEVER, they (many) are all in a (what appears to be) Windows backup file named data_backup.bkf

When I tried to restore the file using Windows restore it said that it did not recognize any of the files and therefore could not restore them.

I wonder why it placed them in this kind of file rather than placing them in the directory with their given file names in readable form. Your program reported them to be in excellent condition.

 

Should I run your program using different parameters or can you tell me how to extract these files from the recovered file.

Thanks

Tom

[cant open recovered files]

I have recovered what appears to be data from a USB drive to a directory on my C drive. However, the file name is data_backup.bkf and is reported as a Windows backup file.

 

How do I display the contents of the file and then how do I restore the data to directory structure?

 

The Windows restore program says that the data is not recognized.

 

What do I do??

[cant open recovered files]

Welcome to Piriform dungeon.

 

Well I've just tried you problem. I've RARed a few files and folder and put a couple of rar files on my pen drive. Gone to the pen drive and deleted them. Ran Recuva which found them and restored them correctly all files are use able.

 

When you say damaged or unknown format. What type of files are they?

 

We did have a problem a long time ago. If you put a jpg on a drive and deleted it Recuva would find it but the recovered file size was 0 bytes. This problem was fixed on a later version.

 

Is there anyone available in this forum right now to answer a couple of questions?????