Bad Allocation Error and Crashes

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When scanning my second largest partition on my second hard disk (90 GB), I get a "Bad Allocation" error at the end. If I attempt to scan it again, it will instantly give me a "Bad Allocation" error again unless I restart Recuva. After I restart it, it simply gives me the "Bad Allocation" error at the end of the scan again. Here is the log file from that scan:

 

BEGINNING OF LOG FILE #1

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[2008-07-14 22:01:50] [iNFO ] Recuva v1.16.333

[2008-07-14 22:01:50] [iNFO ] System Info: MS Windows XP SP3, Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz, 2.0GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

[2008-07-14 22:01:50] [iNFO ] No update available

[2008-07-14 22:01:58] [iNFO ] Boot sector:

61KQTlRGUyAgICAAAggAAAAAAAAA+AAAPwD/AD8AAAAAAAAAgACAAGUPQAsAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAD2

ALQAAAAAAPYAAAABAAAApc1eyABfyCYAAAAA+jPAjtC8AHz7uMAHjtjoFgC4AA2OwDPbxgYOABDo

UwBoAA1oagLLihYkALQIzRNzBbn//4rxZg+2xkBmD7bRgOI/9+KGzcDtBkFmD7fJZvfhZqMgAMO0

QbuqVYoWJADNE3IPgftVqnUJ9sEBdAT+BhQAw2ZgHgZmoRAAZgMGHABmOwYgAA+COgAeZmoAZlAG

U2ZoEAABAIA+FAAAD4UMAOiz/4A+FAAAD4RhALRCihYkABYfi/TNE2ZYWwdmWGZYH+stZjPSZg+3

DhgAZvfx/sKKymaL0GbB6hD3NhoAhtaKFiQAiujA5AYKzLgBAs0TD4IZAIzABSAAjsBm/wYQAP8O

DgAPhW//Bx9mYcOg+AHoCQCg+wHoAwD76/60AYvwrDwAdAm0DrsHAM0Q6/LDDQpBIGRpc2sgcmVh

ZCBlcnJvciBvY2N1cnJlZAANCk5UTERSIGlzIG1pc3NpbmcADQpOVExEUiBpcyBjb21wcmVzc2Vk

AA0KUHJlc3MgQ3RybCtBbHQrRGVsIHRvIHJlc3RhcnQNCgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg6CzyQAAVao=

 

[2008-07-14 22:01:58] [iNFO ] Reading MFT

[2008-07-14 22:01:58] [iNFO ] Reading files

[2008-07-14 22:03:55] [iNFO ] Building folders

[2008-07-14 22:03:57] [iNFO ] Restoring tree

[2008-07-14 22:04:20] [iNFO ] Analyzing damage

[2008-07-14 22:05:03] [ERROR] bad allocation

[2008-07-14 22:05:48] [iNFO ] Boot sector:

61KQTlRGUyAgICAAAggAAAAAAAAA+AAAPwD/AD8AAAAAAAAAgACAAGBJAhQAAAAAAAAMAAAAAACW

JEABAAAAAPYAAAABAAAAqRppqC9pqEoAAAAA+jPAjtC8AHz7uMAHjtjoFgC4AA2OwDPbxgYOABDo

UwBoAA1oagLLihYkALQIzRNzBbn//4rxZg+2xkBmD7bRgOI/9+KGzcDtBkFmD7fJZvfhZqMgAMO0

QbuqVYoWJADNE3IPgftVqnUJ9sEBdAT+BhQAw2ZgHgZmoRAAZgMGHABmOwYgAA+COgAeZmoAZlAG

U2ZoEAABAIA+FAAAD4UMAOiz/4A+FAAAD4RhALRCihYkABYfi/TNE2ZYWwdmWGZYH+stZjPSZg+3

DhgAZvfx/sKKymaL0GbB6hD3NhoAhtaKFiQAiujA5AYKzLgBAs0TD4IZAIzABSAAjsBm/wYQAP8O

DgAPhW//Bx9mYcOg+AHoCQCg+wHoAwD76/60AYvwrDwAdAm0DrsHAM0Q6/LDDQpBIGRpc2sgcmVh

ZCBlcnJvciBvY2N1cnJlZAANCk5UTERSIGlzIG1pc3NpbmcADQpOVExEUiBpcyBjb21wcmVzc2Vk

AA0KUHJlc3MgQ3RybCtBbHQrRGVsIHRvIHJlc3RhcnQNCgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg6CzyQAAVao=

 

[2008-07-14 22:05:48] [iNFO ] Reading MFT

[2008-07-14 22:05:48] [ERROR] bad allocation

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END OF LOG FILE#1

 

When scanning my largest partition on my second hard disk (160 GB), Recuva crashes after getting partially through the scan. The log file from this scan was enormous; it was almost 40 megabytes. 99% of that log file was simply "Unknown Error" repeated over and over until the end of the file. Here is the beginning of the log file:

 

BEGINNING OF LOG FILE #2 (partial)

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[2008-07-14 22:05:59] [iNFO ] Recuva v1.16.333

[2008-07-14 22:05:59] [iNFO ] System Info: MS Windows XP SP3, Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz, 2.0GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

[2008-07-14 22:06:01] [iNFO ] No update available

[2008-07-14 22:06:05] [iNFO ] Boot sector:

61KQTlRGUyAgICAAAggAAAAAAAAA+AAAPwD/AD8AAAAAAAAAgACAAGBJAhQAAAAAAAAMAAAAAACW

JEABAAAAAPYAAAABAAAAqRppqC9pqEoAAAAA+jPAjtC8AHz7uMAHjtjoFgC4AA2OwDPbxgYOABDo

UwBoAA1oagLLihYkALQIzRNzBbn//4rxZg+2xkBmD7bRgOI/9+KGzcDtBkFmD7fJZvfhZqMgAMO0

QbuqVYoWJADNE3IPgftVqnUJ9sEBdAT+BhQAw2ZgHgZmoRAAZgMGHABmOwYgAA+COgAeZmoAZlAG

U2ZoEAABAIA+FAAAD4UMAOiz/4A+FAAAD4RhALRCihYkABYfi/TNE2ZYWwdmWGZYH+stZjPSZg+3

DhgAZvfx/sKKymaL0GbB6hD3NhoAhtaKFiQAiujA5AYKzLgBAs0TD4IZAIzABSAAjsBm/wYQAP8O

DgAPhW//Bx9mYcOg+AHoCQCg+wHoAwD76/60AYvwrDwAdAm0DrsHAM0Q6/LDDQpBIGRpc2sgcmVh

ZCBlcnJvciBvY2N1cnJlZAANCk5UTERSIGlzIG1pc3NpbmcADQpOVExEUiBpcyBjb21wcmVzc2Vk

AA0KUHJlc3MgQ3RybCtBbHQrRGVsIHRvIHJlc3RhcnQNCgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg6CzyQAAVao=

 

[2008-07-14 22:06:05] [iNFO ] Reading MFT

[2008-07-14 22:06:05] [iNFO ] Reading files

[2008-07-14 22:07:31] [ERROR] Unknown error

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END OF LOG FILE #2 (partial)

 

After that first "Unknown Error", there are probably millions of repeated "Unknown Error" statements until the end of the log file.

Recuva only seems to choke on these two partitions; it is able to scan my other, smaller partitions without crashing or giving errors