Hi all, using Recuva's scan wizard, browse location, i can find the directory on my faulty HD that holds all important files but doing a scan from Advanced mode does not find this directory.
I think it will be helpful to give some history first.
I had a chipset RAID1 setup with 2 x 2tb drives. Win 7 64bit OS and data all on the same C: My graphics card blew up and took out the PS and mobo. Its my work PC with many critical files. Both drives were fine.
I stuck one of the drives I’ll call ‘Alpha’ in another PC and was able to boot up from it and keep working which I did for a couple of weeks while I got a new mobo etc. Putting it back together I made the assumption that the RAID system would recognised the Alpha drive as the most recent with more recent files on it and mirror it to the now old Beta drive. Major mistake. The system booted up but it booted from the older ‘Beta’ drive. It took me about 20 mins to realise it was the older drive before I shut down. I can only imagine that in that 20mins RAID was busily rewriting my all imporant Alpha drive. Now the Alpha drive comes up as non bootable in the raid config area and will not boot in anyway/configuration. Beta is still fine just missing the last few weeks files. So the plan was to recocer the missing files from Alpha.
I have removed RAID altogether and am now running from Beta as C:\ and Alpha is now just a slave/secondary Drive E:\ in explorer. Unfortunately Alpha is unreadable by windows explorer. ‘E:\ is not accessible. Access denied.’
I have no idea if the files on Alpha were deleted, overwritten or still 100% intact.
In advance mode of Recuva I ran a full scan on Alpha - ‘deepscan’ and ‘find non deleted files’ included - it found millions of files but not my recent files and not the directory that they were in.
The folder I really need is - C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Black Cat. There are around 20 other folders in C:\Users\Owner\Documents but \Black Cat is not there.
Wondering if I was asking Recuva to find non deleted files and so perhaps, something it really isnt designed to do I used R-Studio, a program that can read drives that windows explorer can’t. It did not find the Black Cat directory either.
So this is my confusion and what I would love if someone could shine some light on. If I use Recuvas ‘wizard’ it lets you browse to a location and select a directory to scan. Using this browse function I can find the \Black Cat directrory and all other folders in it. But nothing else finds this directory structure… wtf.