i am using recuva to restore file structure, but it seems it restore the files in a wrong structures and the names of the folders are not familiar for me. i wonder what did i do wrong. for example : i have a file that is called music and under it i have all my music. instead of that it puts some documents files and some files that i don't recognize
Hi mkaryashraf2, and welcome to the forum.
Can you provide some more information which may make it easier for us to offer any advice?
Where are the files you are trying to recover? System Drive? External drive?
Have they been deleted to the Recycle Bin, or have they been lost by accidental formatting?
Or have they been lost by a drive failing or becoming corrupted in some way?
In Recuva, in "Options\General\View Mode" did you select the "Tree View" option? This would display the results of your scan in a copy of the original folder and file structure the files were in before they were lost?
This would also give you an indication as to whether the original folder structure was still intact in the file data.
This is different to the "Restore Folder Structure" setting which is the next best step after getting the scanned files into a "Tree View".
it was on a formatted external hard disk i formatted it by accident and no i didn't select the tree view
OK. Did you do a "Quick Format" as opposed to a deep "wipe everything" format?
If it was the "quick" variety then your files will not have actually been deleted, just marked as available drive space, so if you haven't tried this already, check the "Scan for non deleted files" in "Options\Actions", and try the "Tree View" setting.
I can't say as to whether this will change the end result but it's certainly worth a try.