Destination drive not big enough

[danielg]

Recuva found all the files from a 2TB drive that I accidentally formatted but when choosing another 2TB drive to recover the file to it says Insufficient space, available: 1,860GB, Necessary: 2,035 GB. Do you want to change the destination folder?

 

This does not make sense because the formatted 2TB drive I was trying to rescover was not even full, it was maybe 70-80% full but now Recuva is saying it has over 2TB of files to move. Are there duplicates? How can I resolve this and move the files to the new drive?

[Augeas]

It's quite possible. Recuva looks for entries in the MFT for deleted files: some of those files may well have been allocated space previously allocated to another file, so two deleted files will have the same clusters allocated to them. Recuva will then attempt to recover the same clusters twice - or even more. On a 2tb disk this is horribly more complex than that explanation.

 

Did you run a normal or deep scan? Did you check Scan for Non-Deleted Files? Did you chose to recover everything?

 

You could select only files in an Excellent state and exclude all files beginning with $ to reduce the size of the restore.

[danielg]

Thanks for that tip makes a bit more sense now. I think I did deep scan. I also sorted by name and didn't see any duplicates. Also I didn't see any $ and I think everything was excellent. I began deselecting larger files to get everything down to a size that would fit on to the new 2TB drive I bought but it only restored 730 simple files like documents and a few jpgs and there was no folder structure. Why would this happen when Recuva said it had over 2TB of data to recover? I'm trying again (deep scan takes 12 hours).

[Augeas]

Very difficult to say without knowing exactly what you are doing - i.e. sitting in front of your pc.