Snr. Administrator BJtheDJ Posted December 28, 2022 Snr. Administrator Report Posted December 28, 2022 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. 1
Superior Administrator _.:=iTake=:._ Posted January 10, 2023 Superior Administrator Report Posted January 10, 2023 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.
Snr. Administrator BJtheDJ Posted January 13, 2023 Author Snr. Administrator Report Posted January 13, 2023 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.
Superior Administrator _.:=iTake=:._ Posted January 16, 2023 Superior Administrator Report Posted January 16, 2023 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..
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