Folder recovery? W10

[nuyorican]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 26 November 2024 at 19:57

[sgrimshaw]

So who's going to be the first to mention the "B" word?

When you say you have tried EaseUS Recuva, do you mean EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Pro?

If they're important files "free" shouldn't really come into it.

[Captain_Morgan]

There are two kinds of people.

Those folk who haven’t dealt with data recovery yet & those who do backups

[Mr Pointy]

Do you have the "Restore Folder Structure" box ticked?

https://support.ccleaner.com/s/article/recovering-...
https://support.ccleaner.com/s/article/recuva-opti...

[speedyman]

If you have installed any data recovery software or saved any new files to the same disk then you may have already overwriten the data you "deleted". Only the file header gets changed when you delete a file. The file header contains information about what areas of the disk are being used. File recovery attempts to restore the headers and verify the file integrity.

[mmm-five]

SSDs are not a good backup solution. Either use a HDD and/or a cloud-based backup.

SSDs will 'clean' their own deleted areas as part of their perfomarnce/housekeeping duties.

You've probably just got the header, and the next xxx cells of data as per the header info...but those cells have already been allocated to something else, so you're recovering parts of a different file or bits of lots of different files.

[Mr Pointy]

Do the files sizes look correct or are they all much smaller than expected - that would tally with the post above about only recovering partial files from SSDs