Hi,
My HDD crashed & burned, and I'm in the middle of recovering some 300,000 files (80 GB) of data.
It would take me till 2019 to pick them individually in LIST mode.
I REALLY only want the NON-DELETED files, but there's no option for that.
So...
If I pick TREE mode, and restore a whole tree...
AND if theres a GOOD NON-DELETED file, AND a deleted file of the same name...
WHAT does RECUVA do in that instance?
1. PREFER the non-deleted file to the deleted file?
or
2. recover them, one over the other, depending on which comes first in the disk search?
THanks for ANY help on this one! - {:-/
Wulffie.
Whenever I've recovered two files of the same name Recuva will append a (2) to the end of the second file, so both are recovered. You could always try a small folder to test this.
Alternatively, assuming you are in Adbanced mode and that you have the Show non-deleted Files option ticked...
Check Options/Actions Restore Folder Structure. In List mode, click on the State column to sort in Non-Deleted order. Ignore the first dozen or so unnamed files. Then highlight the first file name. Move the slider down the page to the last of the non-deleted files. Shift/Highlight the last non deleted file name. All the non deleted files will be highlighted. Then Recover the lot to another drive. Go for a beer, pace up and down. This should do the trick. But try the method on a few hundred files first.
How to your mean "crashed & burned" did you lose your partition data or Windows wants to format your drive??
If you have file system problem then try from the DOS Prompt (cmd.exe): chkdsk.exe /f d: (assuming d: is your problem drive)
If you have a partition table problem then try TestDisk and see if this works otherwise continue using Recuva.
Richard S.
Whenever I've recovered two files of the same name Recuva will append a (2) to the end of the second file, so both are recovered. You could always try a small folder to test this.
Alternatively, assuming you are in Adbanced mode and that you have the Show non-deleted Files option ticked...
Check Options/Actions Restore Folder Structure. In List mode, click on the State column to sort in Non-Deleted order. Ignore the first dozen or so unnamed files. Then highlight the first file name. Move the slider down the page to the last of the non-deleted files. Shift/Highlight the last non deleted file name. All the non deleted files will be highlighted. Then Recover the lot to another drive. Go for a beer, pace up and down. This should do the trick. But try the method on a few hundred files first.
It used to be that only certain OEM versions of windows would add the the (2) to the filename, however...
I tried it on a small directory of non-deleted files, and was pleasantly surprised to see:
file.txt
file_1.txt
file_2.txt etc.
So it DID actually add a suffix.
Your 2nd suggestion is also a good one, if you want to recover ALL non-deleted files.
Since the program adds an enumerated suffix, I simply restored the entire tree...
(For as long as it was going to take, a case of beer wouldn't have been enough ![:wacko:]()
, however a cup of green tea and 7 hours of sleep did the trick! )
Thanks,
Wulffie.
How to your mean "crashed & burned" did you lose your partition data or Windows wants to format your drive??
If you have file system problem then try from the DOS Prompt (cmd.exe): chkdsk.exe /f d: (assuming d: is your problem drive)
If you have a partition table problem then try TestDisk and see if this works otherwise continue using Recuva.
Richard S.
Redhawk,
I guess my techno-slang wasn't very descriptive, was it?
The HDD has physical damage, a corrupted MFT, unreadable sectors, and is non-navigable in any file manager, however, both RECUVA and test_disk did locate files.
CHKDSK was attempted before I posted, which froze after finding unreadable sectors.
I've successfully recovered disks/data in the past, but with a disk in this condition its all about salvaging what I can, trashing the old and moving it to a new disk.
Thanks for responding,
Wulffie.
If you're experiencing read problems then MHDD maybe able to help because it can patch out bad sectors making them readable again.
I've used this program in the past to help a friend's PC when their laptop hard drive developed a habit of locking up Windows.
When you run MHDD remember to set remap to "on" before you scan otherwise it won't fix anything.
Richard S.