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I'm trying to recover the entire drive! I performed a 'deep scan.' I thought I selected all file types. Recuva found the majority of the files on the 3TB drive, but for some reason it's "ignoring 3,010 files." Why is it doing this? How can I actually get every file on the disc?
Recuva is a tool for recovering deleted files. The ignored count is non-deleted files, zero length files, etc. depending on what options you have set. Switch to Advanced mode, if you're not already, open Options/Actions, and check the five top boxes and you should see all files. I'm not sure if you will have to rescan or whether the full list will be displayed, but I would hesitate to say rescan seeing that this is a 3tb drive.
Recuva is a tool for recovering deleted files. The ignored count is non-deleted files, zero length files, etc. depending on what options you have set. Switch to Advanced mode, if you're not already, open Options/Actions, and check the five top boxes and you should see all files. I'm not sure if you will have to rescan or whether the full list will be displayed, but I would hesitate to say rescan seeing that this is a 3tb drive.
Augeas, I had to set the scan back up... bummer, but if I can save it, then that's all the difference! BTW: Another question then... if the drive is 3.6TB... how can Recuva show that there is 4.8TB of files to be recovered? And an additional 4TB drive isn't 'large enough' to restore files to? I don't understand that one!
You can save the list of files found into a text file, but that can't be used for recovery - you'll have to do another scan.
I can only guess about the size discrepancy, which is quite large at 4.8 to 3.6 tb. A deep scan scans the MFT first then scans all the unallocated clusters. Perhaps the results from the MFT scan and the deep scan are being added together, instead of the clusters found in the MFT scan being ignored in the deep scan. How much data do you have on the disk? Is this discrepancy shown on the deep scan with scan for non-deleted files checked?
I can't remember now where the size of the data to be recovered is shown. Remind me.
Musing on this, I guess a deep scan must, or should, scan the clusters of the deleted files found in the MFT scan. Those clusters could contain a file that has been allocated in the (now available) clusters of the deleted file, and has been subsequently deleted. If the deep scan ignored the clusters found in the MFT scan then it would miss those 'embedded' files. So you could in theory end up with more data to recover than the size of the disk. I think I need brain food for breakfast.
Yes, that is correct. I wasn't sure what to do, so I checked them all!
"I can't remember now where the size of the data to be recovered is shown. Remind me."
After the scan, there is a HUGE list on the left side/pane. They have green markers as well as red and yellow. I actually clicked on the "Comment" section to try to put all of the 'red/yellow' markers together. That worked great... I went in and started 'un-checking' all of those. Once I only had green markers left on the files that have an excellent chance at recovery, I selected the "recover" button in the bottom right... From there I was asked to navigate to where I wanted to store the rescued files. I selected a brand new, completely free 4TB drive. However, it didn't have enough disc space. I wasn't sure what I could go back and eliminate, so I think I'm going to go buy a 6TB (or if they have the new Seagate 8TB) drive this morning, just to be safe. (then I'll immediately back all of this up to LTO! No more risk for me!)
Ah, I think I remember now. If there's not enough space to hold the recovery files Recuva says so and tells you how much it wants. Otherwise the recovery size isn't shown (and it would be nice if it were).
I think that the very large disks now being used are pushing disk utilities to the limit. Recovery, or wiping free space, or defragging, disks of 3 or 4 tb (they have 6 or 8 tb disks?) is just too much for the user to manage, or wait for. Good luck in sorting the results.