File recovery advice please.

[BJtheDJ]

I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle here

 

2 weeks ago I treated myself to a 16TB hard drive.

 

Did the usual, partitioned it and then formatted the partition.

 

All OK.

 

Decided to use the opportunity to try and sort out my a large number of

zippede karaoke music files scattered hither and thither across my hard

drives, so moved them all to my new K: drive preparatory to sorting them

all out.

 

There are loads of them; those with a proper ID number at the start, and

those with the ID number at the end, not forgetting those with a

different ID format. Plus; most of them are ZIP files but a fair number of

them are matcahed MP3+G files not forgetting a few hundred MP4 and

AVI files.

 

So, all of these files and their folders are on the new drive.

 

Windows was nagging me to update so I did and then I promptly

rebooted, as you do.

 

My new 16TB K drive was not to be seen; but I could see (in Disk

Management) that there was a drive 14.9TB (16TB after 1024 to 1000

conversion).

 

Opened up Active Partition Recovery Ultimate v22.0.0 which saw the

disc and I've waited the last 5 days while SuperScan went through

every sector of the drive.

 

It's found all of the files and directories for me but I'm damned if I

can see how to get them back. It links to Easy File Recovery but that

program can't see the drive.

 

If I right-click on the drive it gives me two choices:

 

1. Recover Volume In-Place

or

2. Copy All Data to a New Disk.

 

Option 2 is out of the question because even if I select "Recover

Files and Folders Only" it tells me there's not enough space on any of

my other HDs n- I'd need another 16TB drive or larger to recover the

(maybe) 400~500GB of KV files.

 

So, Option 1 - where I get the announcements:

 

Not Ready for Recovery - yes, in red.

 

Reason:

Logical structure of MBR is damaged and contains invalid partition

records.

 

Action:

You can try to use low-level tools (like Disk Editor) to fix records

manually, or delete invalid partitions, or execute FixMBR command

(related commands in Partition menu).

 

So I'm a completely at a loss. The files and folders are clearly visible

in the program but it offers me no way to get at them.

 

I've just started running Hasleo Data Recovery - but that has 42 hours

to run, and I'm pretty certain that it will tell me it's a trial

version or similar.

 

So any ideas of my next step here. Is there a non-trial file recovery

program (preferably accessible here on GLO) that will do my job for me ??

 

Thank you in advance for any and all solutions to my problem.

[_.:=iTake=:._]

So I know this response is a bit late, not sure what you've done so far.

 

Have you had any success with the files and folders, let me know so I can share my inputs.

[BJtheDJ]

So I know this response is a bit late, not sure what you've done so far.

 

Have you had any success with the files and folders, let me know so I can share my inputs.

Sorry to be late replying.

 

I think that I have sorted as much as might expect.

 

It just made me want to stamp my foot when a recovery program showed me

#files but didn't show any obvous way of recovering them.

 

I switched programs in the end.

[_.:=iTake=:._]

Sorry to be late replying.

 

I think that I have sorted as much as might expect.

 

It just made me want to stamp my foot when a recovery program showed me

#files but didn't show any obvous way of recovering them.

 

I switched programs in the end.

 

I'm glad you were able to resolve the issues in the end..