Using the Recuva Tool

[DadExtraordinaire]

Before taking any remedial action on my hard drive and its missing data, I read the sticky on Lost Data Recovery above and I ran Recuva and it stated it had found around 1500 files and ignored 203,000. The files it listed are in various states of health and I recognise most if not all of the files, however I know for some of the files the path under the heading path doesn't correspond to the path in the comments box. I was wondering if anyone else has used Recuva and did they get similar findings if so what remedial action did they take based upon the findings in Recuva? Also does Recuva have a finite limit in terms of maximum number of files it can recover / total size it is able to recover?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[DadExtraordinaire]

yes, every free ware has a recovery limit. like recuva, minitool power data recovery and so on. you'd better buy a license.

Thanks John, but Recuva from Piriform is free without limit either for home user or business, but if the licence does crop up I agree I would purchase it.

I have realised that the 203,000 files are the non-deleted, so I ran Recuva again with the option locate non-deleted files and found the vast majority of my data. The next step is to use Recuva to recover the files onto a back up hard drive with the option of restore folder structure.

But before I do, has anyone ran Recuva before? Have you ran another recover tool and compared results? Were the results the same? I was wondering is it worth me running another tool like Pandora and comparing results? Before proceeding to the actual recovery step, as I know from reading on this forum for every read/write action to the faulty drive could make retrieval of the intact data more difficult.