hassanayoub85 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Dear sir, I was trying Recuva, on it seems amazing. Want to ask u about the ability t recover files in different directories. As I have formatted a drive by mistakes which contains tons of files with same name but different directories. When I recover them They recovered to 1 directory, and all files get renamed. Can I recover them to different directories but same file names? Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted April 10, 2012 Moderators Share Posted April 10, 2012 Hi hassanayoub85, and welcome to the forum. You can set Recuva to restore recovered files into the same folder (directory) structure they were in before they were lost, albeit a copy of that folder structure on another drive or partition. In case you don't realise, never try recovering to the same drive the deleted files are on, as you will probably be overwriting files you are trying to recover. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hassanayoub85 Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Sorry sir, I didn'r saw this before!!! Thanks alot for best recovery software and best support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddt104 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 hi, why it recover directory but every file has size 0 byte? File are not corrupted, excellent in recuva and already recovered on other drive (but everything in the same folder. What can i do? Thanx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted July 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted July 20, 2013 Have a read here ... http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=30910 Also, it's far better always to start your own topic as you'll getter a much better response to your query. The title of this topic doesn't match your problem so you may have been missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddt104 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Have a read here ... http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=30910 Also, it's far better always to start your own topic as you'll getter a much better response to your query. The title of this topic doesn't match your problem so you may have been missed. Thanks for the hint. I've read the post on your link. I have an other kind of problem I think. If you think it's better to have this discussion in a new post move it without problem. So, let me explane. I just clicked "delete" (yes, crazy man!), made a deep scan and recover file correctly, after 10 hours work. Ok, not everything was perfectly working but was good. Then I've seen that there was this possibility to recover old folder structure and I've tried it. The structure was good but files were always 0 byte. I've not formatted the hard disk, no new files was wrote on it. What could be the problem? If the reply to my question is on the link you wrote, please explane me because I can't understand Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I've not formatted the hard disk, no new files was wrote on it. Does that mean you tried to restore the OLD files to the disk ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted July 24, 2013 Moderators Share Posted July 24, 2013 That thread I linked you to was about recovering files of zero bytes. The last post in that thread sums it up really ... http://forum.pirifor...10 In a deep scan try sorting the file list by name to see if there are other copies that can be recovered. If you find the files and they have a size of zero then recovery is not really possible by any way I know. The author of that statement, Augeas, has a far greater knowledge of the technicalities of file recovery than myself, so I'm afraid I couldn't improve on what he says. Have you tried a "Deep Scan"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddt104 Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Yes, I've tried deep scan too.. I think problem was that I tried to restore file on same hard drive (I didn't have an other one big enough). So this way I could have overwrite some files.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 All those deleted files sit in what Windows considers as free space. When windows is asked to save a file it saves it in free space, and I have observed that it prefers to use second-hand free-space nearer to the start of the disc rather than brand-new free-space at the other "end", so the most recently deleted files are most likely to be over-written, though some may have survived thus far. Recuva is like other powerful tools - if used wrongly it will do more harm and make it harder and more expensive to fix what you tried to repair yourself. If it is important that you retrieve these files you can pay a professional to use specialist tools, I doubt that I can assist you any further, but others with more experience and knowledge may if you start your own topic with suitable title and full information on :- Version of Windows; The drive that holds your deleted files (size, drive letter); the path to the folder you deleted; the content of the folder (music, photos, applications, system files, etc.). A screen shot showing Windows Disk Management may also be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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