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OK, The important thing here is to let others know about this result before they spend good money ( I bought Recuva) on buying software that will not deliver. My guess is that increasingly lots of data accidentally deleted will be large in size and this may well be of valuable assistance to others in the future. All I can tell you is that it took an awfully long time 18 hours to do the scan ( R-Studio was exactly the same) the GUI was a bit like a defragmentation grid, I guess it was doing it sector by sector. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and Bitmart's offering of both bits of software (assuming that R-Studio would have given the same result). done what none of the others could. I never selected raw mode all I done was select whole partition scan and then selected the appropriate disc. And as I said I was impressed at the job it done and mightily pleased with the overall result.

You are being po-faced and I see no reason why I should reply but I will. These titles are all ones I have purchased, I make copies and put them in box sets of 6 so I can replicate my library at my Holiday home. I wouldn't like to have hundreds of my original discs go walking if ever my Caravan was turned over. Anyhow, 6 discs in one case takes up far less room and it doesn't matter if the kids trash em or smash em. My nightmare was having to sit down and re-encode all those discs again so I could fit them on a 25GB disc. My guess is they wouldn't get done. At least Alan was gracious enough to say he was pleased I found a solution unlike yourself who immediately saw 2 and 2 and made 5.

Well I'm a happy bunny. Both Restorer Ultimate and R-Studio saw the iso's with their true size. see image attached. What was interesting is that both bits of software looked very similar they carried out the scan using the same method and ended up with the same result. So I took an educated guess and bingo both are by the same company: BitMart Inc. 9251 Yonge Street, Bldg 8, Suite 203 Richmond Hill ON L4C 9T3 Canada Restorer Ultimate Pro was $49.99 (£30.00) while R studio was $79.99 (£48.00) so I took the plunge and bought the Restorer Ultimate. I then attempted to perform the recovery of the scanned files. It was telling me a day to restore so I done it overnight. This morning I now have a folder with 100 fully recovered and WORKING iso images. Well I have learned something here and I hope that others who find themselves wrestling with the same problem as I had can look at this post and get a definitive solution, that has been tried and tested. So Well done to BitMart who have produced software that out performed all the competition. Thanks to everyone for their input and help.

No Luck with the Lazesoft I done a full partition scan. It picked up all the iso's but saw them as 0KB. I tried to recover and it did so as iso's but again 0KB. So no luck with this. The other two are still running. fingers crossed.

I have downloaded the Lazesoft suite and am running a partition scan now. I will let you know how I get on

Thanks for your replies, Yes the drive is NTFS. The one .iso it managed to recover was 3.99GB in size. Yes I do have an empty 3TB drive ready to restore to (if I get the chance) Having done some research on this it seems that most software as you say will struggle with large file recovery. However, people in the same predicament have reported success with restoring large iso images using R-Studio recovery software. I am running a scan with this now time elapsed 11hrs 50min. time remaining 7hrs 10min. I will report back on whether it is successful as I'm sure that I'm not the only idiot out here that has an itchy trigger (delete) finger.

Hello, Please help I have been an idiot and accidently deleted all my blu-ray .iso images on an external 3TB drive. I had them in a folder called BluRay iso's for burning. So no I never had a backup! When I do a scan Recuva does see all the iso's 73 in total !! When I try to recover the files it only managed to do one iso. This was an iso of a DVD so just under 4.7GB. All the others are to fit on 25GB discs so they are approx. 21-22GB in size. Does Recuva have a limit on the file size it can recover? Is there anything I am missing? Any help would be appreciated, if recuva will not do the job is there any software out there that will. I am pretty desperate as 73 iso's is a lot of films. Thanks in advance