Hi guys,
Only people I could turn to, did a massive boo boo when sorting about my new hard drive partitions.
To cut to the chase, started a deep scan, and it hangs on stage 1, 12%, 13088 files found, specifically,
Estimated time: 1 day.
My face: Priceless!
So now I'm here, it's been here for 3 hours, do I wait overnight?
it's a 300gb partition if that helps.
Hi jrbalazo, and welcome to the forum.
I've only ever once carried out a deep scan with Recuva, and the one thing I noticed was the initial projected scan time can come down quite quickly as the scan progresses, so the indicated 1 day may drop long before that 1 day has expired.
May do.
But can I ask you what has been done to your partitions?
Some c**k ups, like accidentally deleting a partition, can be reversed.
Basically I accidently deleted the wrong partition (was supposed to delete one on my ext. HDD) instead wasn't looking and hit the one on my laptop.
In panic I c*cked up even more and repartitioned this section and formatted it. If I cancel I can see most of the files that were a long with the partition, but have no attempted to recover them yet, I rescanned and exactly the same thing happens, stuck.
a 'normal' scan instantly brings back no files found
It's a shame you didn't come here before you carried out the repartition and format.
I can't tell you offhand why it's hanging, maybe it's doing it's thing and taking an inordinate amount of time over a particular section of your drive. All I can suggest is to either leave it running, or attempt to recover the files it has picked up while it's seeing them.
Other guys on here are more familiar with Recuva's scanning process and problems, and I'm sure they'll contribute when they spot your thread.
In the meantime, don't use that particular partition at all apart from scanning, and if you try to recover anything, recover to another drive.
Taking your advice, recovering what was found so far. Seems to be working as normal. Apparently 90% of it was unaffected (excellent condition, "no overwritten clusters detected)
still wonder about the hanging though, maybe this could be pushed to devs (i'll post a log or something)
All partitions were lost on my Laptop
The free Boot CD Minitool Partition Wizard included a Partition Recovery Wizard which got them all back for me, I think in less than an hour, complete with all files.
It first identified several dozen boundaries of where partitions used to be.
Before this disaster I had resized and shifted partitions,
and new partitions overlapped the boundaries of older partitions.
With Recovery Wizard aid I determined the most likely boundaries of the most recent partitions,
and everything came back good.
If you have created a new partition that may have complicated things, especially if your new boundaries are a bit offset from the old ones.
This is what I have used and depend upon for all my partition adjustment needs, and was adequate for my total partition loss
http://www.partitionwizard.com/
The same people have free data recovery tools (which I have never needed or tried) at
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-boot-disk.html
The also have extra options at a cost
http://www.partitionwizard.com/comparison.html
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/power-data-recovery-compare-license-type.html
I see, I recovered everything exactly as needed. thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it. Definitely turning back here first thing if this happens again.
That's the object of the exercise, so well done, although Alan has posted some interesting information there, and well worth a read.
It first identified several dozen boundaries of where partitions used to be.Before this disaster I had resized and shifted partitions,
and new partitions overlapped the boundaries of older partitions.
With Recovery Wizard aid I determined the most likely boundaries of the most recent partitions,
and everything came back good.
I wouldn't have thought there would be any hope of doing anything with a partition which had been deleted, and then that drive re-partitioned. But' it seems that these things may not always be totally lost.
Nice information Alan. I've digested it with interest.