canuser Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 If I want to save the scan information and wait for the other day to recovered the files, how can I do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted September 13, 2009 Moderators Share Posted September 13, 2009 There's no way I know of. Such a list would be of limited use, and is unlikely to avoid doing a second scan if you wanted to process deleted files. The problem is that the list contains nothing more than the file name and perhaps path info. In a normal scan Recuva might be able to access the MFT entry by deleted file name, but more probably the directory/indexing info in the MFT would be lost and the MFT would have to be rescanned to find the entry to check that it hasn't been reused. I find the scan to be very fast anyway. In a deep scan then there's no way I know of finding a file in some distant cluster from file name alone, the disk would have to be rescanned. I think that there must be some information in the form of a cylinder/track/sector address that is used in the original scan list but would be lost if a list were saved. The list of course is a moving target, you can never be sure that what Recuva has shown is a true reflection of the contents of the disk. I assume Recuva does a second check if you ask for a file to be overwritten, etc, to make sure that the space hasn't been reused subsequent to the list being produced. So a saved list would in effect decay with time. (Ususal proviso, everyhting I post is just a wild guess.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuser Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 There's no way I know of. Such a list would be of limited use, and is unlikely to avoid doing a second scan if you wanted to process deleted files. The problem is that the list contains nothing more than the file name and perhaps path info. In a normal scan Recuva might be able to access the MFT entry by deleted file name, but more probably the directory/indexing info in the MFT would be lost and the MFT would have to be rescanned to find the entry to check that it hasn't been reused. I find the scan to be very fast anyway. In a deep scan then there's no way I know of finding a file in some distant cluster from file name alone, the disk would have to be rescanned. I think that there must be some information in the form of a cylinder/track/sector address that is used in the original scan list but would be lost if a list were saved. The list of course is a moving target, you can never be sure that what Recuva has shown is a true reflection of the contents of the disk. I assume Recuva does a second check if you ask for a file to be overwritten, etc, to make sure that the space hasn't been reused subsequent to the list being produced. So a saved list would in effect decay with time. (Ususal proviso, everyhting I post is just a wild guess.) Thanks for your answer because I try the other program and they have the scan information save, therefore you can retrieve them again which save a lot of time. It is because my HD is 1 tb which need 16-17 hours to scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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