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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony" data-source="post: 159976" data-attributes="member: 1">So I posted that quote above quite a while ago. It did take a very long time to find all of the files because I did a "Deep Scan" which looks at ever friggin point it possibly can to find files that had been marked as "available" which means they were "deleted". So after a very long time of searching, it found the files and I started writing them to the drive. I screwed up and I have no idea how I did it, fat fingered the mouse I guess because I selected to save to the SAME DRIVE!!! Randy knows what that means, but for those that don't, if you are recovering deleted files from a drive, and you try to save to the same drive, it is going to write to the exact same sectors you are trying to recover from. This means, files are going to be corrupted and there is NOTHING you can do about it. It's like double exposed film, you are never going to get the original image out of that double exposed image. Yea, this was stupid on my part!!! So I found another drive where the files would fit and I wrote them to it. It was just a 200GB drive from an old laptop which is pretty slow, but whatever, they are being backed up. Once that finally completed, about 14 hours later, no lie lol, I open it up and holy hell, it was all individual files in no particular order other than alphanumeric order. Great.... I know I had talked to Randy about this, but I can't remember where it was, may have been in a conversation which I have not looked at yet. But I remember saying something to him about it saving non structured files and he didn't say anything other than "yup, that is what sucks about it". Well, I went poking around today and in the advanced settings of Recuva I found a beautiful little check mark that said "keep file structure" or something like that. Oh yea....So you know what I"m doing now... Yup, rescanning (quick this time, forget that overnight crap... Although I may still do it just to test lol) all of the files and writing them to my NEW 8TB drive. Yes, NEW because I want a backup drive just in case something like this pops up again. My luck though, I will need both drives for files and will have to purchase two more as a backup to these two lmao. It's a never ending battle. So there, I'm trying to get all of the files I can back and once I do, I absolutely will NOT do a duplicate file deletion unless I have the entire drive backed up, which I should have done in the first place. Brain fart from hell... Even on this quick scan, it is saying it is going to take 7 hours+ to write from one 8TB drive (in my computer) to a USB3 drive plugged into the same computer. Someone punch me if I make this mistake again...</blockquote>

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