so. yes, i am the fool, the idiot
i multiboot a system. i was on linux the other night, (a bit drunk) and decided to use gparted to format a 512 mb sd card. this was to load my cheap mp3 player with music so i had company on my walk to buy some more beer. the booze helped me format a 500 gb external hardrive instead.
it contained all my music. 44 thousand files, 140 days of continous playback. i am an audiophile, yes. i am an idiot, yes. i had no back up- as money kept me from buying more storage
that night i did not worry so much, as i knew it was possible to fix the situation.
the drive was reformatted to fat 32, but not overwritten.
so i tried recuva with some sd cards, and other drives, testing it.
it worked great, and was nice enough to keep file names as well as a bit of the folder structure.
when i ran it on my affected hard drive, recuva told me i did not have enough resources.
i doubt it is the real reason- since running recuva only uses 25 percent of my cpu (core2quad with 4 gigs ddr2 1066- 64 bit windows xp and 64 bit linux) and not much ram.
i figured maybe it was because the affected drive was connected by usb
so i took it apart, and was pleased to learn the wd mybooks are actually sata drives.
so i put it in my box, and ran recuva again.
and the same error.
not enough resources.
i thought i had found a way around this, by just telling recuva to scan the whole computer.
by this time i purchased a 1.5 tb internal sata drive, since i needed a place to recover to.
this put my system to a total of 4 drives
1.one 250gb for system (windows and linux)
2.one 500gb for programs and pagefile on windows- as well a common storage for both operating systems
3.the 500gb drive that is affected
4.and finally the 1.5 tb that i bought to the remedy the problem
i let recuva run for more than 24 hours, and finally cancelled the scan- since the last 12 hours of work showed no additional progress. (it was stuck on 19% of the last drive)
when i looked at the results, all drives but the pagefile drive (partition) had been scanned.
yet the affected drive just was not there.
DISCLAIMER
let me say that using photo rec, of test disk fame- i was able to retrieve ALL data
in other words, my 1.5 drive now contains all my lost data
.
but i have nothing but loose files, all mixed up- with no names or folder structure.
i would love to get recuva to work.
i repeat
in a few test runs, with sd cards, usb sticks, and smaller (60gb) external drives, i was able to get not only the data, but also file names, as well as a decent folder structure.
hey recuva admins!!!!!!!!!
can you give this idiot a hand?
why is recuva just ignoring the one drive i need it to scan?
