[I had Recuva premium before (paid version)]

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 had Recuva premium before (paid version)]

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