Mira Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I'm trying to recover some Word documents that were lost at the end of August '08 when my laptop battery ran down before I had logged off properly (I guess it was one time too many). When I switched it on again, OS couldn't be found so I had to wipe my hard drive and start over. Unfortunately I hadn't made backups I asked Recuva to search only for documents, but instead it found what seemed to be pretty much everything on my hard drive, including mp3s, videos and jpgs, except what I was looking for. It took 6 hours and yielded 400,786 results. I made a pretty good stab at searching through the first 25% of results, but had to concede defeat eventually. I thought you could specify what type of file you were looking for? Is it possible to sift through the results for a specific file type? I'd be very grateful if anyone out there can offer some advice on what I could be doing wrong, and whether it's even possible to restore my files. I appreciate it's been several months now but I don't want to give up just yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted April 5, 2009 Moderators Share Posted April 5, 2009 You can of course enter doc in the File/path box (but not .doc). In my experience Recuva will do a full scan and then show filtered results, no matter what you put in the File/Path box, so it won't make the scan any shorter. I don't think your chances are high, though. As you formatted the drive are you running a deep scan? (By the runtime and number of files found it sounds like it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mira Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hi thanks for your advice, I haven't been able to get online till today as my connection was down. I realised why I got far too many results with the first scan - chose the 'search everywhere' option (yup it was a deep scan). I ran another scan but this time but checked only the C drive box so I got around 300 results - a lot easier to sift through! Found what I believe are my lost Word docs but I don't know if the recovered files are any good yet though as I still need to install the full version of Office. Btw thanks for the other tip - I had typed .doc, not doc - I'll know better for next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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