File Structure

[elementol]

Hi there,

 

A few people recommended to use Recuva to recover my files. I've lost 2 whole harddrives of data by deletion and have bought a new harddrive to recover the information back onto. my main question is will my recovered files keep their original file structure before deletion? and will having these other drives connected as secondary drives be doing any harm to them for instance will win xp be overwriting any deleted files to use the disk space?

 

Thanks

[elementol]

No replies?

[elementol]

Well i tried using Recuva last night as it was recommended by a few people. I ran it on my external harddrive which had all of its contents deleted. Unfortunatelt it didnt find a single file on the drive. Ran it in normal mode and found nothing then ran it it deep scan mode and gave up about half way through when it still hadn't found anything. (no files had appeared in the window so i assume it didnt find any.)

 

Why couldn't it find anything? I ran another competitor product afterwards and it found pretty much every file that i had lost and is recovering them as i speak..

[elementol]

Probably won't get a reply but here goes.

 

Just tried running it on my internal drive. Once it finished it found a load of files but they all appear in a folder named "?". I was hoping that it would have kept their original file structure. Is this due to damage caused byt using the harddrive etc or is this just how Recuva works? Putting all the deleted files in a folder named "?"........?

 

Oh and ,most of the files names have been changed to something like "[003265]", is this normal?

[fireryone]

It can only recover what it can find, and as far as i know "?" means it doesn't know the folder name.

[Augeas]

I don't know what would cause the file renaming (O/S and method of deletion would be a help). Deleting via the recycler renames files but it doesn't seem likely that you deleted 2 drives via the recycler. I would say that it's not normal, some other application perhaps?