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Is it possible to recover to multiple drives?


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Hi, I just had to reformat a failed 10TB hard drive with about 7TB of video files on it. I recently bought some smaller SSDs in order to switch over completely to solid state storage and I'm wondering if I will have the option to restore - (a quarter of my recovered files at a time) - on to each of the 4 SSDs I have? Or will I only have the option to save ONE TIME ONLY at the end of the scan, before needing to run another deep level scan? (I don't have a spare 10TB drive to use for a disk image.) Thanks.

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As far as I am aware you can only specify one destination drive to recover files to, so you will probably have to do the recovery in stages to fit the smaller SSDs, with a new scan each time.  (Moderator @Augeas knows this Recuva stuff better, so you may want to wait and see if he replies).

It's probably safer/better to do it that way anyway, but it is going to take longer overall.

Even if you hadn't formatted the drive you would have had to split the files up to fit onto the smaller SSD drives.

These guides may help if you haven't already seen them:

https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045667371-Recovering-your-files#where-should-you-place-recovered-files--0-4

https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048890271-Recovering-files-from-damaged-or-reformatted-disks-with-Recuva#to-set-recuva-to-recover-files-from-damaged-or-reformatted-disks--0-1

And this may help you with sorting/selecting groups of files to recover to each SSD:
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/31488-selecting-multiple-files-for-recovery/?tab=comments#comment-187494

 

Of course the optimum solution would have been to have a backup of the files on another drive or drives.
If the 10TB drive has now been 'fixed' you could use that as a backup drive in future, (but personally I wouldn't fully trust a drive that had already failed once).

 

*** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory ***

Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043

 

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3 hours ago, nukecad said:

As far as I am aware you can only specify one destination drive to recover files to, so you will probably have to do the recovery in stages to fit the smaller SSDs, with a new scan each time.  (Moderator @Augeas knows this Recuva stuff better, so you may want to wait and see if he replies).

It's probably safer/better to do it that way anyway, but it is going to take longer overall.

Even if you hadn't formatted the drive you would have had to split the files up to fit onto the smaller SSD drives.

These guides may help if you haven't already seen them:

https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045667371-Recovering-your-files#where-should-you-place-recovered-files--0-4

https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048890271-Recovering-files-from-damaged-or-reformatted-disks-with-Recuva#to-set-recuva-to-recover-files-from-damaged-or-reformatted-disks--0-1

And this may help you with sorting/selecting groups of files to recover to each SSD:
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/31488-selecting-multiple-files-for-recovery/?tab=comments#comment-187494

 

Of course the optimum solution would have been to have a backup of the files on another drive or drives.
If the 10TB drive has now been 'fixed' you could use that as a backup drive in future, (but personally I wouldn't fully trust a drive that had already failed once).

 

Thanks nukecad, I appreciate your help. Both external 10TB drives I have here were working perfectly until I installed a PCIE NVME+RGB add-on card a few days ago. I'd not fired up Emby until just yesterday and only noticed problems with the drives at that point - one drive (WD Elements) was outright invisible to Windows 10, the other (Seagate Barracuda) was recognised in Disk Management but needed to be initialised/reformatted.

I did notice on the WD drive that the tape used to cover over the first three pins had worked its way loose (common WD hack). So perhaps it was that? I am considering perhaps investing in a replacement 10TB drive, but it's a heck of an outlay $£. However, one thing that may have happened is that I could have inadvertently put the same disk label on the PCIE NVME 256GB drive as was already in use on the WD drive, maybe that caused a conflict when I fired up the external 10TBs?

Anyway, thanks again for your help!

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Mmm, if it was just a  drive not recognised problem then a reformat may have been a bit hasty. (No matter what Windows error messages say there are often other solutions).

Oh well.

*** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory ***

Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043

 

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52 minutes ago, nukecad said:

Mmm, if it was just a  drive not recognised problem then a reformat may have been a bit hasty. (No matter what Windows error messages say there are often other solutions).

Oh well.

Well, all I can do is give it my best shot - the drive hasn't been used since reformatting. Neither has the WD. 80% in with a few hours to go...

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4 hours ago, nukecad said:

Mmm, if it was just a  drive not recognised problem then a reformat may have been a bit hasty. (No matter what Windows error messages say there are often other solutions).

Oh well.

Yeah - Recuva crashed when the deep scan was concluded so... that's that. :/

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