woffi Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I used recuva on a friends pc, win8. She had accidentenly erased lots of files. First I used normal scan and recovered quite a few files perfectly. Some were still missing so I used deep scan for a second go. Deep scan recovered many more files, but all deep scan recovered files are damaged and can not be opened ( for instance .pdf and .odt files). Strange enough even the same files recovered by normal scan in a perfect condition are "damaged" after recovery with deep scan. The PC was not used in between the two scans, everything stored on external HD... Is there any secret how to open files recovered through deep scan? Hoping for help! woffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted January 30, 2017 Moderators Share Posted January 30, 2017 In all honesty, if they are damaged then they are unusable, deep scan shows more files but the majority of them will be damaged. There are some specialized programs to fix certain broken files. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 30, 2017 Moderators Share Posted January 30, 2017 Recuva only reads the first extent of a file with deep scan (subsequent extents are not identifiable). So any file in extents will not be complete. A Recuva deep scan runs a normal scan first and does not return the files found with the normal scan during its deep scan phase. Recuva returns whatever is in the clusters on the disk, bit by bit. It does not change or interpret any data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woffi Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 Recuva only reads the first extent of a file with deep scan (subsequent extents are not identifiable). So any file in extents will not be complete. A Recuva deep scan runs a normal scan first and does not return the files found with the normal scan during its deep scan phase. Recuva returns whatever is in the clusters on the disk, bit by bit. It does not change or interpret any data. Thanks a lot Augeas! That explains my deep scan and normal scan results. But is there any chance to identify the various extents of one file, lets say "example.odt", found by a deep scan and put the pieces together to one file again? I suspect the extents are those numbered files without a proper name found by deep scan??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted February 1, 2017 Moderators Share Posted February 1, 2017 The numbered files ([001234].odt for example) are first extents of a file found by a deep scan. The named files are found by reading the MFT and should return all extents of a file, unless those extents have subsequently been overwritten. A deep scan can only identify the first extent of a file by reading the file header. Subsequent extents don't have a file header so cannot be identified as such and are not returned by a deep scan. Data recovery specialists may look for suitable blocks of unallocated data close to the first extent and attempt to patch the file together, but this is not a job for Recuva. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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