MiningMC Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I permanently deleted a video file by accident the other day and Recuva has been able to find it. But when I attempt to recover the file it fails. The reason states "Unable to find file data on the disk". Is there anyway around this at all? Or is the file gone forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted October 9, 2016 Moderators Share Posted October 9, 2016 It's a peculiarity of the file system NTFS. When a file 4 gb or above is deleted NTFS overwrites the cluster addresses in the MFT with FFs, so the data indeed cannot be found. You may be able to find the file with a deep scan, as it probably still exists on the disk, but this will only return the first fragment. If the file is fragmented, as it may well be, then it is very difficult to recover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiningMC Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 It's a peculiarity of the file system NTFS. When a file 4 gb or above is deleted NTFS overwrites the cluster addresses in the MFT with FFs, so the data indeed cannot be found. You may be able to find the file with a deep scan, as it probably still exists on the disk, but this will only return the first fragment. If the file is fragmented, as it may well be, then it is very difficult to recover. Crap. Well, thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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