I have a 4TB WD external hard drive, which, unfortunately for me failed. It wouldn't recognize in my computer. But when plugged it in there was the famous windows noise, no clicking or anything like that from the drive. Anyway, to get any program to recognise the drive I had to format it in disk management (W7) which I did and finally my computers (and other programs) could once again pick it up.
This drive has years of ridiculously important files on, jpeg, movie files, excel. Mostly important is my kids pictures and vids from when they were a baby till now, family holiday pics..etc.
My PC is a Dell i5, 16gb ram, 500gb SSD, x64. The drive with the issues is a external 2.5" 4TB.
Recova has been scanning now for approx 2.5 days solid, its still on stage 1 and has reached 94%. Its now been stuck there for 10 hours now. 1 hour ago I got a windows message pop up saying the something like: Windows memory is low, please save your files...blah blah...and close the program recova.
I had the option to close recuva or cancel. I cancelled.
I immediately checked free space on my internal SSD and it was on 4GB left. I erased some files to get 23GB free. I then changed pagefile virtual memory size accordingly.
Its stuck on 94% and im not sure what to do now. Any tips?
I would seriously consider using a professional data recovery company. The disk is huge, and using a piece of generalised software on a home machine is going to take days, if not weeks, interspersed with suggestions to run this option or that. Bite the bullet, and backup any results you get.
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I would seriously consider using a professional data recovery company. The disk is huge, and using a piece of generalised software on a home machine is going to take days, if not weeks, interspersed with suggestions to run this option or that. Bite the bullet, and backup any results you get.
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Understand, And I have considered it. Most do offer money back guarantee if they can't recover anything, but what if they can only recover the stuff I don't want? I'd still need to pay top dollar.
By the way, I since canceled the recuva program and it ended up completing, lots of files present, but all seem to be corrupted after I recover them, despite recuva suggesting the files are in "excellent" condition. Not a single file works, whether it be Jpeg, mpeg, excel..etc, all appear to be corrupted.
Is this normal or not?
Would a professional service be able to not only recover but also repair them?
I'm also having some difficulties recovering some data. But my problems are with my phones SD card. Recuva is finding the files on my sd card and most of the files are in "excellent" condition but when actually trying to recover the files to a folder on my desktop nothing is being transferred to the folder. Even when I try to recover them back on the SD card nothing transfers over. Am I missing something? Most of the files I'd like back are videos, if that makes a difference.
"The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid"
That's the "reason" I'm seeing after the transfer/recovery for the files I want have been unsuccessfully completed.