Hi Alan -- the drive is a single partition and the folder held 1.6T of files. The files were not lost (as they were being copied from another drive), only my time, a few grey hairs, and a little reality check from someone known not to make mistakes.
Noticing that Piriform indicated that the limitation was fixed in an earlier Recuva update, I was simply letting them know that the MFT issue was not resolved.
As for FastCopy, I think you will like it. I have been through many of them (e.g. Robocopy, RichCopy, XXcopy, TeraCopy, etc.), and from what I have read (I am getting too chronologically challenged to confirm their findings... ), it appears to beat them all. Besides, what is a percentage point here or there anyway.