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The file recovery process has now finished and I've recovered the files to a new hard drive. Recuva has done a great job of recovering approximately 1.3TB of data but unfortunately I'm still missing about 200GB's worth of files. The strange thing is, there were several folders of images from 2014 and other than just one folder from 7.10.2014. no others were recovered. Also, other folders that contained images that were edited in 2014 also appear to be missing anything from that year. There doesn't appear to be any problem with recovering files and folders from all the way back to 2004 up untill the end of 2013. It's just that all the 2014 data is missing apart from the one 2014 folder mentioned above. Does anyone have any ideas why this is? If anyone has any further advice on how I may be able to recover the more recent files and folders, that would be great and very much appreciated. Dennis, Would you be good enough to now share your suggestion with me? Thanks

Thanks Dennis. It's likely to be several days by the time I've finished as it looks like recovering over 182000 files is going to be a very slow process. I'll get back to you then if it's ok. I appreciate your help, thank you.

Thank you again Augeas for your help and advice. I have done another deep scan and although I don't think it's found everything, I shall recover as much as I can. The hard drive represents approximately ten years of photography so as you can imagine I'm keen to get as much back as possible. My own fault for not keeping up to date with my back-ups, although thankfully some of it is. Reading through the file types that a deep scan is capable of recovering there was no mention of Photoshop's PSD files. I assumed they wouldn't be found, but to my surprise they were Dennis, Thanks for your input and I would very much welcome your suggestion on alternative recovery techniques as I still appear to be missing severable files I would very much like to get back. I am following your advice and not writing anything to that drive. I've just bought another drive to recover the files to, leaving my E drive untouched.

Hi Augeas, I cancelled the scan and a huge list of files were displayed. It included many of the file types I was hoping to recover, such as CRW (Canon raw files), psd files, jpeg's, tiff's, etc It stated that every file was in excellent condition and not overwritten. See screenshot below of the results; I re-launched Recuva and did another scan with the settings you advised, i.e. Scan for Non Deleted Files and Restore Folder Structure checked. The other boxes in the Action tab were left unselected. The result finished virtually instantly with just 3 files shown, as seen below; Any ideas on how I can recover the files shown after the deep scan, but preferably keeping the folder structure and names intact?

Thanks for your help Augeas. The scan is still only on 14% so it would take several weeks by the looks of things. I'll cancel the scan and follow your instructions. I appreciate you taking the time to help

Having now read the documentation I've set Recuva running to do a deep scan. In a matter of seconds it indicated that it had found 182931 files and I left it running overnight, at this stage it was indicating that the progress was at 11%. This morning the scan has now been running for approximately 9 hours the found files remains the same but the progressed has only increased to 12% and has stayed there for the last couple of hours. The estimated time left has increased from 1 day to 3 days. Does this sound like it's working ok or is it possible it's 'stuck' on 12% progress? I presume there's no way of ending the scan and recoverring the 182931 files it's found so far.

Thank you for your help. I'm off to read the documentation now.

I've just very foolishly formatted (quick format) my E drive with almost 2 TB of data on it. The hard drive contained mostly Raw files from varies cameras along with many jpeg's, tiffs and psd files in many different folders. Will Recuva be able to preserve the file and folder structure, assuming it recovers everything? Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.