Ric85 Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Hi, a friend of mine deleted accidentally from an external hard drive a very important folder and asked for help. He told me immediately after the accident, I told him to unplug the harddrive without deleting or adding any file. Then I brought the hdd to my home and plugged to my pc. I used recuva which found the missing files (150 files , 150 MB total more or less). I restored them but none of them can be opened. Files are all .pdf If I open with notepad ++ I can only see "nul" non printable character. Any advice? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 29, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 29, 2020 If you open the files with Notepad, or look at the header in Recuva, the file should start with %PDF-1.4 or 1.5. If there is no %PDF at the start then it's most likely that the data isn't a pdf and won't contain your data. I assume the disk is NTFS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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