Dear professional restorers,
do you please have some help for me ?
On a Windows 7 Pro system, with NTFS file systems,
I accidentily deleted some file folders (about 500 MB) on a Samsung SSD EVO 850 250 GB
I immediately did shutdown the system, and I now use a backup boot system.
With Recuva, I changed these options against default settings:
Tree View
Deep Scan
Restore folder structure
(Simple Overwrite) (stays default)
Then I tried to restore one of my lost folders ...
all files within this folder show restore state = 'Excellent'.
Files with looking at 'Recuva-Info':
Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.
are all fully restored,
but ('Recuva-Info')
ALL Files with any "cluster(s) allocated"
e.g. "1 cluster(s) allocated at offset 95273"
are all not (fully) restored.
In detail:
The file structure is fully reconstructed,
flat files are created with their original filenames,
file sizes are identical to origin sizes,
but the contents of the files are all zero (= binary 00 bytes).
The 'Recuva (binary) Header view' shows only zeros (binary 00 bytes),
I looked with another hex editor at the files,
the inside contents of the files are all zero (binary 00 bytes).
I'm sure, the files are still on the SSD. So, what do I do wrong ?
Actually I downloaded the actual Recuva free version rcsetup152.exe,
would it help, to get the 'Recuva Professional Version',
to overcome these problems ?
Any advice from you will be really appreciated,
Wolfgang
