Grantchstr

I purchased a new 2TB Seagate External HD...transferred 1.2 GB of data from my computer (Vista) and from a smaller Seagate HD (which has peformed 100%); shortly afterwards started to get "corrupted file" messages when accessing files on the new HD. Windows "Properties" for the 2TB ExHD shows the usage on the new HD as 1.2 GB but only a only a small amout of data is available. The major problem is that my largest file [ containing 1GB of sub-files ] doesnt appear at all now even in "corrupted and inaccessible" form. Seagate offered a very expensive data recovery of up to $2400 but also recommended Recuva....so I did a deep Recuva scan and my missing file with sub-files does not even show up let alone be recoverable. The 1GB file has to actually be there as it is shown as used capacity on the drive as Windows "Properties" for the 2TB ExHD is 1.2 GB.... but only 0.2 GB of small files is accessible. ..the issue is how to access the missing file..... I guess I need advice as to how to use Recova for this purpose. Thanks in anticipation.

I had a similar problem.....purchased a new 3TB Seagate External HD...transferred 1.2 GB of data......shortly afterwards started to get "corrupted file" messages and had difficulty in accessing data...now even though uner Properties the usage is shown as 1.2 GB only a small amout of data is available and my largest file of 1GB doesnt appear at all now even in "corrupted and inaccessible" form. I did a deep Recuva scan and only a small amount of data was recoverd. The 1GB file has to be there as its shown as used capacity...the issue is how to access it......I need advice as to how to use Recova for this purpose. Thanks in anticipation.