Does Recuva restore formatted data/files

[davidm]

Hi,

 

Apologies if this has already been asked or is obvious, but i just wanted to check.

 

I accidentally quick formatted a HD used to store data (I know!) and was looking for a program that could help me recover some of the data.

 

I was wondering would Recuva work in this situation, or does it only work with deleted files.

 

Thanks in advance

 

David

[Augeas]

Run with Scan for Non-Deleted Files option ticked.

[davidm]

Thanks.

 

I started it running there now, with the option ticked. Unfortunately it crashes after 6% with 52229 files found. Frustrating

[Augeas]

Can't help there unfortunately. 52k files might be the disk total, I assume that you can't access anything when Recuva crashes, and that it crashes in stage 1? (If it gets to stage 2 then cancel immediately, you will be able to access the files found.)

[davidm]

Yes, it crashes in stage 1. I will try it out again tonight, possibly searching for only .jpg as opposed to all picture file types, to see if I can any joy out of it.

[Augeas]

I believe that the selection is post-scan, in other words the full scan is done and then the results are filtered to show jpg files, so you may be no better off. Give it a go anyway, there's not much to lose.