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I still don't understand how those files could be partially overwritten, when I have not added any data to the disc after all files had been wiped from it. My filesystem is NTFS and I used deep scan. I don't know if I had the "Non-Deleted Files" checked, but I have now disposed of that harddrive and moved on. I will not be using Western Digital's drives again, way too many issues with them. I also won't be using Recuva next time I lose any files, as it never seems to be able to recover anything usable anyway.

Hello, Extremely frustrated here, for a number of reasons. It all started a couple days ago, when I plugged my Western Digital external USB hdd in, only to find out there were 0 files on it (3 Tb worth of files - nice). I have no idea how that happened, I have been very careful with it. Anyway, I ran Recuva on it, and most of the files were found, now on to my questions: 1. Although Recuva claims a lot of the files conditions are "Excellent" and "no overwritten clusters detected", why are there so many files which are partly over-written? Let me elaborate, this harddrive was working great just a couple days ago, and after it failed on me, I did not do ANYTHING to it. Did not write even 1 byte of data to it, so how can these files be partly overwritten? I don't understand the logic. It just was not working one morning, and I immediately ran Recuva on it. How is partly overwriting even possible when no data has been written to the disc? And so many files, as well, we're not talking just a few, more than half of the files are in "very poor" condition or completely unrecoverable! 2. Another thing that bugs me is, the files that in fact are listed as "Excellent" condition, and no overwritten clusters, I don't fully trust that. The reason is because several of the pictures which were successfully recovered by Recuva, have one filename and then the picture itself is of something completely different. For example, if I named a picture "John's birthday 2017.jpg" then it might show "Lucy's wedding 2007" instead. What I mean is, the picture which I named "John's birthday 2017.jpg" and originally pictured just that, instead shows the image of something else I also had in my collection. Those were just two made up examples, but you get my point. Why is that happening? I know each respective image was named correctly prior to all files mysteriously being gone. And if these images are recovered incorrectly, with the filename saying one thing, how can I trust the rest of my files were in fact recovered in their original condition? Pictures are easily verified, but what about other files such as ISO files, how do I know that these are not messed up somehow too? Apparently, what Recuva says cannot be trusted. I would like some answers please.