I'm trying to recover a BUNCH of jpgs/videos from an NTFS external drive (2TB USB)
I ran Recuva with deep scan enabled, and after about 65 hours, it said it found 206,000 files. I plugged in a 250 GB FAT32 drive (empty) and started copying.
It said there were 160,000 that were "not recovered", and the "Reason" for each was "The directory or file cannot be created"
All of the files had a state of "Excellent", with no overwritten clusters. Most had lost their folder (they came back as "F:\?\"), and I told Recuva to rename if it ran into duplicated names.
I tried several times, with slightly different results each time, but it's getting about 4.7 GB / 27,000 recovered (once, it managed 25 GB / 35,000). The last shot at recovery ran 46 hours, so it apparently took a while each time it failed.
The lifeboat drive (G:) is nowhere near full, and I'm restoring them into "G:\From Unknown Folder\". The files it couldn't recover ranged in size from 20 BYTES (easily fitting in a cluster) to 270 MB (videos).
What could be causing the "The Directory or file cannot be created" message? Do I need to try another lifeboat drive formatted as NTFS?