Thanks Augeas,
Yes, most of these VHD's are quite large (more than 4GB in size). After performing a deep scan, the VHD's I was looking for do not show up in the list, however I do see one particular vhd in the list 14 times that has a GUID as a file name (which to me might be a Windows System Image backup file) and whose last modified date reports as a date one week apart at 8pm on friday (where my computer ran scheduled backups.)
Since these backups were taken on a large 2TB volume and not much day-to-day activity occur on it, I would imagine the fragmentation to be very small (if any). Each of these vhd files are 12,354,554KB in size and have an identical header, and recuva reports them as "No overwritten clusters detected"
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E44B1A21ABC4F5A8!44580&authkey=!AIxsoWRtYHHlVLc&v=3&ithint=photo%2cpng
When I select any of these vhd files and restore them to another drive, recuva reports back progress indication that never reaches 100%, after about 6% complete it report it is finished recovering the file successfully.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E44B1A21ABC4F5A8!44579&authkey=!AIS81RMvGn78enY&v=3&ithint=photo%2cpng
However on the device where the vhd files were restored to, the sizes of the restored vhd files are much smaller..
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E44B1A21ABC4F5A8!44582&authkey=!AFhjZnganYe5LNM&v=3&ithint=photo%2cpng
Attempting to attach the restored files in Disk Management fails with the file being corrupt:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E44B1A21ABC4F5A8!44581&authkey=!AMjAt_jDyrOGI84&v=3&ithint=photo%2cpng
Assuming the issue is with recuva 'stopping' the restore operation at 6% in and incorrectly reporting as complete, is there anyway to force the restore of the whole 12GB worth of vhd file?
I think the underlying confusion is the nested vhd's involved here.
I have a 2TB physical drive that I had about 8 different VHD's on. One of those VHD's was a "DesktopBackups.vhd" which pre-allocated to about 64GB or 128GB in size (don't recall the exact size.) This DesktopBackups.vhd file was mounted to my desktop for scheduled backups to write to which upon that VHD the system image vhd's were written to.
My situation is that I accidentally formatted the 2TB physical drive and performed a windows quick format on this drive, and would like to recover the 8 different VHD's on the drive itself (or if possible restore the original partitions/MFT, but not sure if this is possible.)
