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Okie Dokes, thanks guys for the tips I have one last question, Recuva has several entries like this one: " hÅ´âšE³j " (just random characters) i can't make out the name or what kind of file it is, but the state is green and "excellent" and it also says no overwritten clusters. i recover it and windows or the web can't seem to figure out what to do with it. Has anyone come across files like this and knew what to do with them ?

I created a partition but opted out of formating it, it has a drive letter now, but no file system. Recuva says: Unable to determine the file system type So should I go on with the format as well ?

What can I do about that ? Should i make a partition so i can assign it a drive letter ?

haha, i mean i do have some files on the 2TB drive, that's why I made this thread recuva just can't detect the 2TB HDD

It's an internal HDD, i've used it before, i deleted the partition (sorry I thought i formatted it), during the windows xp setup, like in this example: hazelnut suggested connecting it to another computer, but i'm not sure if my other computer has SATA, I do have a sata/ide to usb though.

it's an unallocated drive(it doesn't have a drive letter yet), I think the circumstances will be the same if I connect it to another computer via usb ? Is it safe to create a new partition as it has none ?

it's black the only options when you right click it are: new partition... properties help

It's unallocated, so I can't right click and choose the drive letter for it. not sure about the file system, i know it was ntfs before My OS is Windows XP x64 I formatted it during the Windows installation.

I can see it in Disk Management, but it doesn't have a drive letter.

Hey guys, I want to recover some files off an internal HDD. I currently have an SSD for the OS, and now I just inserted a used internal 2TB HDD. I erased some files on it, and used the windows installation to format it. Which was months ago, Then I discovered Recuva. Hopefully I can retrieve the files I want, but first thing I need to do is detect it. It was detected by Windows when I started the computer. But Recuva isn't seeing it nor is My Computer. I'm using the portable version of Recuva because I used it on the master drive, now the slave. If anyone can help me out, that would be really great. Thanks.

Now it's saying the following filles were not recovered reason: unable to recover a file of 0 size

I checked all the boxes, even the restore folder structure and didn't check the deep scan box. But it's still not showing any files ?

Hey guys, I've used Recuva on 3 USB sticks so far, and the first 2 yielded great results. But on my 3rd USB stick, it's saying that it's finding 0 files when during the scan it says its found 676. I tried EaseUS and it found some files, but the current version is only a trial version and won't let me recover without a license. If anyone could shed some light as to what's happening, that would be great. Thanks