Explorer Crash and Recuva question

OK, what happened - I was moving 70GB of Photos, and edits (some files were duplicated in my saving patter - RAW/edits (with RAW and JPEGs) and JPEGs) from a reasonably new WD HDD to my HDDs at home.

Dring this process explorer crashed.

The original transport log said 8881 files were to be moved.

After explorer crashed I checked the file number and got 8608 files.

I ran recuva on the drive - I never filled well over 200GB of it and its from this summer, I only moved my pictures of it - and Recuva found, in a deep scan - 8608 files.

How does this discrepancy arise?

Were there only 8608 files - or were there 8881 and some are lost completely?

I am recovering the 8608 now and later on will try to merge the two "sets".

I'm off to bed now - thanks for any replies - I'll check them when I get back.

 

Probably this ^^.

But then one cannot expect Recuva to always be 100% at files recovering.

cheers ...

 

Well, the other thing is, none of the files had a single damaged cluster.

And the 8608 recovered corresponded perfectly in size to the 8608 files I had after moving them originally (with the crash).

Another thing is - when I was moving them, before explorer crashed - I got some "not enough RAM" messages - even though there was space left - related to specific files...

I mean - no files were overwritten - no data was written to the HDD - so it seems unlogical that 280 files were perfectly overwritten...

 

Your observation sounds logical, but then unless one can read and talk bits and bites, one cannot know what exactly Windows is doing at that "crashing" point.

Might want to get another recover tool, run it and see if it can detect the other 280 files? Handy Recover comes to my mind with a 30 days free trial.

cheers ...

 

OK, thanks, I think I'll try it.

Edit:
Pointless, the trial can recover 1 file per day
If it finds nothing its good, if it finds stuff its bad...

 

Bummer Detlev, I do like that Handy tool and got it via Give Away of the day before. Try multi-pass of Recuva already?

cheers ...

 

Multi pass? - I have a German installation - I used something which I can translate to "deep scan".
I just did a quick normal scan.

Both give me 8608 file.

The tool:
That is bad luck.

 

:lol: Go with the "Bauch" (stomach) feeling eh?

Sorry I am stuck about the issue of your "280 files".

cheers ...

 

Thanks for trying to help anyway.

Remind me to rep you.

Do you know any other trustworthy recovery tools? Trials too - but fully functional ones?

 

Keine Ursache (don't mention it)

Bait! Trap! It is against Forum Rules

Give theses a shot:

http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm

cheers ...

 

I think I'm going to end this chapter.

The files affected are photographs from Germany - not Poland - so they aren't important as a such.

I cannot seem to recover more than 8608 files - even using a toll that says it doesn't relly on the MFT.

Just thinking on a completely daft side note - could the file transfer have counted files in zip files?

I'll be using my drive again - and just hope this is more of a scare - and if I lost something, bad luck.
There are more important things than some photos that can be retaken.

 

Coming across a good offer for today only here -

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/grt-data-recovery/

Might come in handy for you some time in the future.

cheers ...