insufficient memory

Recuva
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Hello, i have a problem with recuva, when i try to find files in a hard drive, when it finish scanning for files, its says in spanish "Memoria insuficiente", in english "insufficient memory" or also it can be this i found in the changelog of recuva: "Insufficient resources error"

Why this error occurs?

I have test the same SATA hard drive of 250GB in 2 computers

Computer 1

Windows 7 32Bits

4GB RAM (3,37GB usable)

700GB Free HD

Computer 2

Windows XP

2GB RAM

190GB Free HD

I both computers its says de same error, when recuva reaches 100% in the first pass of scanning

My recuva options are

Show files found in hidden system directories

Deep Scan

Scan for non-deleted files

Restore folder structure

I have test to uncheck Scan for non-deleted files and the same occurs

Thanks and sorry for my english :)

2

Perhaps you're overloading the CPU's?

I'd test to see if I got the error too, but with millions of deleted files i wouldn't be back for days! :lol:

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The error don't appear in all hard drives that i have used recuva, only in some of them, im going to see the number of files that recuva detects in the first pass before the error appears and the cpu usage of the computer (before, i have executed recuva alone and with other programs runing without any problem), also im going to use the /debug parameter to see if a logfile is created.

PD: In the recuva folder there are some recovery files and folders, from various recoveries that i have done before, i have not selected the recuva folder as the destination folder, can be that a bug?

Thanks :)

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Hello i have test again the recovery and in the log file, in the final lines apear too much times this:

[ERROR] bad allocation

I have attached the log file, and a .dmp file have been created but is emtpy

How i fix this? It can be a damaged hard disk the cause of this error? can i bypass the bad allocation error?

Thanks :)

Recuva_log1_41_5371-12-2011_0-22.txt

5

Try running a chkdsk /f

and see if that fixes it. I don't know much about Recuva, but a lot of issues with hard drives seem to be fixable with a simple check disk

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But if I do that, I'm modifying the hard drive a lot and I think I can lose a lots of files of the recovery

Is this safe?

Thanks :)

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I have test the "chkdsk /f" comand in the hard drive and I do not think that has made many changes to the hard disk, but i have test again with recuva and the same error ocurrs

The logfile its a little extensive than before

Any ideas?

Thanks

P.D: In the new version of recuva the problem is still here, I have attached the log of the error in the new version of recuva "1.42.544"

Recuva_log1_41_5371-12-2011_10-31.zip.zip]

Recuva_log1_42_5442-12-2011_16-5.zip

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Is there any new solution for this?

I have the same problem at this time. With the Recuva version v1.42.544

I have the last log and the last dump file in this zip file.

Thanks

Esteban

Recuva.zip

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I'm dissapointed that Esteban has not gotten an answer. I am having a very similar problem. "not enough memory"

My hard drive had an accidental re-format. I was able to recover some files with another inferior program, so I know that they are still there...

Any tips on using Recuva? It seems like its just what I need.

- Windows VISTA

- Recuva portable 1.38 (I think)

- 3 gig of ram running almost nothing but recuva

- The size of the drive I want to recover is 500 gig. Except for the windows reinstall that deleted everything, nothing is on it.

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You should try the latest Recuva v1.42.544 (01 Dec 2011).

http://www.piriform....version-history

32 or 64bit Vista?

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Thanks nodles.

I tried that newer version of Recuva too.

I am on VISTA 32

Maybe running the scan with "deep scan" not checked would get me a better result?

Would Recuva's tech support be of more help?

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if you paid for recuva that's recuva tech support & a straight line to the developers

13

I too keep running Recuva in a Deep Scan on a large 1TB hard drive and the scan ends with "Ran out of memory." Please help! It takes 11 hours (according to the estimate) and have tried unsuccessfully three times. Its very time consuming and cannot figure out why it comes up with that message. I have plenty of hard drive space.

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Hi , I'm here while I have the same problem with a 1.45 GB disc : "to less memory ". I got this when I've checked "search" for all files which takes 1 hour to scan. Now I'm trying to search one file type after each other . Hope this helps . If this helps several runs for each file type might be necessary . Keep you informed , or in case someone comes with a solution ....

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A scan for a particular file type will run a full scan and then filter the results, so I doubt if you will have any luck there. I can understand that running a deep scan on a large disk could cause problems, as there may be millions of files found. A deep scan on a small disk should be fine (I've just deep scanned a 160 gb disk with around 45,000 files found), unless you have limited memory or some memory hoggers running.

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Yes , you are right . In all cases the full scan is executed and then in the list view only the selection comes . So there is no difference for what concerns the needed memory .