I ran the free version software not realizing there was a checked box that needed to be checked (Scan for non-deleted files) in Actions. It recovered over 7,000 files, not one is usable or readable. Now when I try to run the same drive again, nothing is found to check off. Any ideas or am I done?
Oh yeah, the FAT format was inadvertent as I never intended to format THAT drive...I was trying to make a bootable recovery disc on a USB drive and I think I selected the wrong drive. I think.
What was the drive formatted as before the FAT format, FAT or NTFS? Did you run Recuva before or after the format? Unfortunately I'm not able to spare any time on this at the moment.