Recuva find old data but no recently ones

Recuva
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Hello all,

recuva is really a amazing software, that said i have a problem i kind of don't understand..

as a "new years" cleaning and because my USB3 Ports where somewhere deep in Windows drivers broken i re-installed Windows.

As usually i delete all partitions in my SSD drive to make a really "clean" install of Windows 8.1

i dont know if i was really so stupid to format another drive (2TB WD 10k rotation) by mistake,

or if the drive simply got a shot on chance by this time..

(i have 6 drives in all, SSD first the "lost" one last..the chance to click wrong, seems low at least :D )

anyway

i run recuca on this WD Drive with all settings on (deep search, zero files, non deleted and so on)

Recuva runs for around 7 Hours and find really many files, but all are between 2009-2012 but nothing more recently like 2013-2014 except for 2-3 folders in a unrealized folder system "?\"

i am really clueless about what reason that could be, or if there might be any other way to retrieve the lost data..

any ideas? :)

kind regards

Flo

oh, and sorry for my English..non native speaker..

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bump . . .

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thanks for the bump, and sorry for the other thread, you are right of cause :)

as a little add-on, i tested a couple other recovery programs (free trail but limited recover volume) they all have the same problem.

So its seems to be some kind of totally lost sector on the disk..however it show the full capacity, and SMART say its in perfect health so no clue again..

well with that i lose trust and safe feeling with that storage..just gonna use it as temp file storage then :D

Should recuva be able to find and recovery lost sectors, or is that simply impossible?

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Windows has 3 different ways to format a drive.

You may have used a format tool intended for SSD, which might have corrupted your HDD.

Your data has little chance of recovery unless you used Windows Explorer "Quick Format",

and that also would fail if a glitch in the GUI or your handling of the mouse caused the "Quick Format" box to be unchecked as you were launching the format action.

Your data was recorded on an Advanced Format HDD with 4096 byte sectors,

and perhaps your format operation failed to honor that and chose to write "sector identities" at 512 byte intervals,

in which case I doubt that even the CIA could recover your data.

Someone MAY be able to tell you how to determine whether your drive is now "Normal Format" instead of "Advanced Format"

It is just possible that the data recovery solutions that have failed you may have dealt with your drive as "Normal Format" instead of "Advanced Format".

You may just possibly benefit from this freeware :-

Lazesoft Recovery Suite 3.5 Home Edition (Free)

http://www.lazesoft.com/download.html.

It redirects to CNET, but so long as you are given 25.5 MB you have got the real thing and not one of the notorious CNET download managers.

Softpedia was always my first choice for a download, but today they have numerous prominent download buttons for "other stuff".

If Lazesoft also fails it is worth emailing their support.

Their product was for me much better than commercial software costing $69,

and when I complained of the "cosmetic defect" that the date/time stamps were "today's date" instead of the original time stamps,

they fixed the code and sent me a perfect solution within a few days.

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hey,

well as stated up, it was formatted during the installation of windows 8,1 so it was formatted/deleted/shoot/cooked whatsoever gone wrong :D with the windows install format, i dont know how this one does it, but its dev to fast to be anything else then quick-format.(i guess)

anyways, testing the software you linked just now, we`ll see

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With luck Lazesoft may solve your problem

If you booted your PC with an Installation Disk then either NO drive letters are shown, OR the WRONG letters are shown,

and it is easy to format the wrong drive.

That should never happen to me because I assign System Volume Names with a hint, e.g. C_System_C,

and even a Linux Boot CD will show that identity.

If you formatted with the Windows 8.1 Installation Disk it PROBABLY recognized your drive as being "Advanced Format",

and it MIGHT have automatically "done you a favour" by aligning the partition because that greatly improves A.F. performance.

If W.D. created your A.F. drive drive aligned to W.D. standards, and then Microsoft re-aligned to M.S. standards,

then when you read the "RAW DATA" from the M.S. aligned partition you may be reading from the last half of one W.D. sector and the first half of another sector.

It might be worth asking W.D. for advice

Alan

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Well it found several Damaged Partitions, and what should i say, the latest data was with one of them.

Its restoring now. I will post some info when finished, if the files actually work (recuva sometimes restore, but the files don't work all the time..?) it would be quite some awesome piece of software :)