6000 music files

Recuva
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I used Recuva to bring back some files, but the problem is that the songs are missing the beginning few seconds.

Any thoughts?

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What kind of files??

Richard S.

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mp3, flacs, shns

Thanks for replying!

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Does Recuva state that files are in "excellent" condition or have they been overwritten??

Also did you recover files using "Deep scan" mode or without??

Richard S.

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yes it calls them excellent and I deep scanned

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How did your music files get deleted??

Would it be possible to re-scan without "Deep scan" or do you need this mode enabled??

Richard S.

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I was working in Lenovo Rescue and Recovery. It asked if I wanted to make the backup bootable, I said yes. The file moving GUI started and ran for about 20 seconds. When I went to see what it put there, I noticed my drive was like 99% free. I panicked.

Wondered how it could wipe 200 gigs in 20 seconds, so I tried Recuva.

I began with deep scan. I could give it a try...

Some tags are still there, but many are stripped, but many were not mp3 to begin with, but flac, shn, etc.

The tagless files are called [0001] and so on.

Every file I listened to had a few seconds missing from the begining of the song...

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When you use "Deep scan" mode with Recuva it checks every byte of your hard drive for traces of files and then rebuilds them.

Most files like jpgs being with a file header making them easy to find the start unfortunately mp3 files do not have a fixed header.

I suspect Recuva is finding the wrong mp3 fragments and not recovery from the start which could account for the missing start of audio for your files.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or just a consequence of using "Deep scan" with mp3s but you could try some alternatives such as:

ParetoLogic Data Recovery Pro

or

Diskinternals partition recovery – demo / crippleware but allows full playback preview of mp3s

Richard S.

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When you use "Deep scan" mode with Recuva it checks every byte of your hard drive for traces of files and then rebuilds them.

Most files like jpgs being with a file header making them easy to find the start unfortunately mp3 files do not have a fixed header.

I suspect Recuva is finding the wrong mp3 fragments and not recovery from the start which could account for the missing start of audio for your files.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or just a consequence of using "Deep scan" with mp3s but you could try some alternatives such as:

ParetoLogic Data Recovery Pro ? free but requires registration

or

Diskinternals partition recovery ? demo / crippleware but allows full playback preview of mp3s

Richard S.

I took it to a local computer shop. At least Recuva let me know there was something there to recover...

Thanks for your help Richard.

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I took it to a local computer shop. At least Recuva let me know there was something there to recover...

Thanks for your help Richard.

A bunch o files have been recoverd in entirety, but the tags all all messed up.

Can you recommend an app that will help fix?

Thanks