So somehow I managed to mess up my external 2TB drive to the point where all the files disappeared. Scandisk wanted to run the moment i connected it but i clicked cancel a couple of times and now I see a massive File0000.chk (sic). Ran a deep scan on recuva and it managed to pull about 600G worth of stuff. Now this lot had only extensions (no filenames) and recovery worked. (I still have to sort through the mess.)
I still saw about 100K files marked as ignored, so i followed instructions elsewhere in the forum and got them all visible. However, this new lot of files dont have either a name or an extension. Recovering them seems to be useless as I get an error that says "System cannot find the path specified." Some of them are properly readable files as those that are images are rendering a preview. How do I go about getting out those files?