I need help on understanding what is taking place.
1. It says it is scanning 1 of 7 drives. I only have My C drive, E drive (External drive for backup only), then the D drive which is the CD drive. Where does it get "7" from?
2. Also, when the scan is finished, it gives a list of "recovered files" and I am able to place a check to any of them. So I realize there are the green ones that are "recovered", greenish that are just partially recovered, and then the red ones that were NOT recoverable. At this point, I am unclear as to what I need to do. Do I need to go in and click all the reovered and partially recovered individually or is there a bulk selection that I can click for the green and greenish ones?
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I need help on understanding what is taking place.
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1. It says it is scanning 1 of 7 drives. I only have My C drive, E drive (External drive for backup only), then the D drive which is the CD drive. Where does it get "7" from?
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2. Also, when the scan is finished, it gives a list of "recovered files" and I am able to place a checkto anyy of them. So I realize there are the green ones that are "recovered", greenish that are just partially recovered, and then the red ones that were NOT recoverable. At this point, I am unclear as to what I need to do. Do I need to go in and click all the reovered and partially recovered individually or is there a bulk selection that I can click for the green and greenish ones?
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None are recovered yet.
Green=pretty good chance can be recovered (not currently overwritten by other data)
Yellow=minor chance you can recover (some data overwrite but file still roughly intact)
Red=overwritten, you can try but it will likely fail.
The checkmarks are to tell it attempt recovery for that file
There are duplicates and sparse files in the green so don't just recover all green.
If you close recuva you will lose your scan, if you take too much time after a scan unoverwritten files may become overwritten.
If you use the hard drive for anything, even web browsing or hibernating, overwrite green scanned items.
Green scanned items may not work when recovered, the green, to reiterate, means the files aren't currently overwritten.