woffi

Thanks a lot Augeas! That explains my deep scan and normal scan results. But is there any chance to identify the various extents of one file, lets say "example.odt", found by a deep scan and put the pieces together to one file again? I suspect the extents are those numbered files without a proper name found by deep scan???

I used recuva on a friends pc, win8. She had accidentenly erased lots of files. First I used normal scan and recovered quite a few files perfectly. Some were still missing so I used deep scan for a second go. Deep scan recovered many more files, but all deep scan recovered files are damaged and can not be opened ( for instance .pdf and .odt files). Strange enough even the same files recovered by normal scan in a perfect condition are "damaged" after recovery with deep scan. The PC was not used in between the two scans, everything stored on external HD... Is there any secret how to open files recovered through deep scan? Hoping for help! woffi