Sober0782

Thank you for your advice I will try both as they are very important unreplaceable files . All are Jpeg files . 60k is actually 60,000 files found but non came up on the final screen sorry for the confusion. I have always had good luck with recuva in the past. what happened is that I have all my files backed up to 1 internal hard drive and 2 external hard drives. but I some how in the process lost one file completely. with about 300 Jpeg photos in it. as I was doing a cut and paste to from the original drive to the reformatted external drive. It was operator error smile. and it so happened that it was one of my most precious files of a friend in china who was on a teacher exchange to the united states for a year.

I have used Recuva in the past and it worked pretty well. this time I downloaded the free version and tried to recover some important Photographs from my external drive that some how got deleted I took it to the folder and it said 60 k files found I ran both the regular and the advanced and it came back blank Not one single file showed up. I had selected K:\People\Friends|Misc Friends\Other friends\Friends as the folder I wanted to scan. It scanned over 8 hours and came up blank NO Photos at all.. not a single recovered file ? any idea as to why from some one ? I have used recuva many times before with good results especailly the paid version but I tried it on two different desktop PCs and two different working back up drives same results Win 10 both 32 and 64 bit OS 16 gb memory intel I3 3.4 cpu 1tb seagate external HDs thank you for any advice