Boowho Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I accidentally deleted a large number of files, but made no other changes of any kind to the drive. Ran Recuva and it identified all the files that I deleted. BUT, a few of them were marked as "unrecoverable". And the files that were marked as such were files that were already on the drive (and had been for a long time). How is this possible??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted January 23, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 23, 2020 Disk activity can cause it. If it's the drive that Windows is installed on then Windows and/or an installed software could have created or updated a log(s), etc., or something updating itself in the background such as antivirus, etc. Doesn't matter how long something has been on the disk, to Windows it see's empty available disk space and can use it. That's why it's always important to have backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boowhom Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 7 hours ago, Andavari said: Disk activity can cause it. If it's the drive that Windows is installed on then Windows and/or an installed software could have created or updated a log(s), etc., or something updating itself in the background such as antivirus, etc. Doesn't matter how long something has been on the disk, to Windows it see's empty available disk space and can use it. That's why it's always important to have backups. Let's make sure you understand. This is on an EXTERNAL USB drive; not a system drive, etc. Have several dirs on the disk dir A, Dir B, etc with files on them. Do a backup of many files to a new dir C. Accidentally delete dir C. Run recuva IMMEDIATELY before any new data can be over written. Recuva shows shows a few unrecoverable files that were over written from files in Dir A and/or Dir B. These two directories were on the drive previous to the accidental delete of dir c and NOTHING was added to them Again I wrote NOTHING to the drive (and I doubt Windows did either) between the time I accidentally deleted dir C and ran Recuva. How two existing files can be moved ON TOP of freshly deleted files is what I don't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 23, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 23, 2020 Give us a clue, is it FAT32? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boowhom Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Augeas said: Give us a clue, is it FAT32? Sorry, NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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