Hello just as the title says I hard scanned for my files with recuva, should have been images, and videos. stuff I had downloaded (from xbox before they deleted all videos, images that users could show others) If anyone could help me please I'd really appreciate it. I'm not tech savvy at all so if anyone could dumb down how to convert the file so my computer can actually acknowledge what it recovered rather than as a video as a whole.
Thank you, I really appreciate the fast responses. I had lost hope on this but I will give this a try and let you know if it all works out. Thank you again seriously.
OK. It sounds as if the drive had somehow lost it's formatting and so you have had to reformat the drive.
There are various reasons why that could happen to an external drive, (A common one is unplugging it while it's still bein writen to).
TBH though I'm not sure what that 3-stage partition, h,F. & D creating was about? But not to worry, lets see what we can do.
If that is the case then the Wizard is not what you want to use.
The Wizard looks for files that have been deleted, but with a reformatted drive what you want are the non-deleted files that were on there before it crashed and needed to be reformatted.
For that you use Recuva's advanced options.
We have a 'sticky' post with a step-by-step of how to do that, and there is even a video link showing it being done. (No, that isn't me).
Your drive appears to be already (re)formatted so you won't need to do step-2.
PS. One of the good things with Recuva is that the Free version can do exactly the same recovery as the paid-for version.
So unlike many others it's not going to say: "<em>Look at what I found, now pay me to see if you <u>might</u> be able to get them back</em>".
If Recuva Free can't recover a file then the Paid for version won't do any better.
Thank you for replying and yes I've tried playing the video through multiple apps to try to play the video and nothing happens.
The drive is a HDD to be specific its a WD Black D10 8tb HDD
I am attempting the recovery because after several months of it being in my closet I was going to backup some more of my xbox clips/screenshots. But, noticed the clips/screenshots weren't coming up on my xbox to backup to the portable hard drive. Hooked the portable hard drive to my computer and went to the events of the hard drive and noticed something had been deleted. (shown below) The issue is I'm not sure why it got deleted I never touched it, I only turn it on to backup my stuff from xbox then after that I put it in my closet until a couple months pass to backup more stuff.
To add on to what I've done since the laptop itself wasn't able to detect the hard drive, I had to "create simple volume" Thats the only option I had (I've seen through other videos and websites I would have to do more than click "create simple volume" but thats the step I was at already before I even touched it after several months) I've created "h" volume, deleted it, then F volume, deleted it and finally D volume because thats what it was before. (left it as D volume)
I used wondershare recoverit (that gave me a whole bunch of files, images, videos. But none of them were playable through their app) I didn't choose to pay to fully recover it on my laptop. But they did say if I paid to fully recover it on my laptop the images, videos could work.
I used Recuva Wizard and went through these exact steps
(All Files to hard drive location to enable deep scan then I started the scan)
That scan is only showing the one flv file recovered
Have you tried playing the recovered video to see just what it is?
Flv is a Flash video format, VLC should be able to play it as is or it could be converted to an mp4.
You can download VLC here if you don't already have it, its free: <a href="https://www.videolan.org/" ipsnoembed="true" rel="external nofollow">https://www.videolan.org/</a>
We need you to explain a bit more to be able to advise what may be the best way to proceed to find the rest of the files (if possible).
What type of drive is this. a HDD, an SSD, memory stick. SD card, other?
Why are you attempting a recovery? ie. Had you accidently deleted some files? Had the drive crashed? Some other reason?
The methods/techniques you need to use will be different depending on just how/why the files went missing.
What has happened, if anything, with the drive between losing the files and attempting a recovery with Recuva?
ie. Have you continued using the drive if the files were deleted accidentally?, have you reformatted the drive if it had crashed?, had you tried using any other recovery software before Recuva? etc.
When running Recuva did you use the Wizard or the Advanced Options?
If using the Advanced Options then exactly how did you set it to run a scan?