For Christmas this year my HTPC decided to change 2 of my drives that i store all of my movies on to RAW File System. as im sure you can imagine i was over the moon.
i have done lots of reading and have found that its not possible to convert a drive back from RAW to FAT32 or NTFS unless you format the drive.
I have done a quick format to NTFS and i am now looking for a piece of software that will help me recover the .mkv .mp4 and .avi video files. i have tried recuva and it has done a deep scan and found all of the files and also tells me they are in excellent condition but it will not reover the files for me.
the files on the 1 TB drive restored ok but for some reason i am unable to recover the files on the 2TB drive. are there any limitations to restoring on a dive this size?
the reason given for not being able to recover the files is "The Device Is Not ready" none of the files i am trying to recover are over 4 GB. i will try a Scan for Non-Deleted Files. if memory serves though if i do this i only get a list of XML documents that all have a byte count of 0 as they were recovered the very first time i run it
ok so i changed the setting in the options to only scan for Non-Deleted Files and did only bring back only the XML files associated to the movies files which it sort of restored last time and all have a 0 byte count.
Someone recently suggested that the Device not Ready message on external drives can be overcome by opening an existing file on the device, to kick-start the device into ready status.
I guess it's back to a deep scan if a normal scan only finds XML files. Recuva by the way will not alter the size of recovered files, they will remain just as they were, so I don't get the 'byte count of 0 as they were recovered the very first time' statement.