Forum posts relating to Recuva http://forum.piriform.com/index.php Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:06 -0500 10 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25368 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:23 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25368 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25354 I always get the " Unit not ready" error message.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:40:03 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25354 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25348 ]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:05:28 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25348 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25108 Thanks.]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:16:42 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25108 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25324
Recently I was continuing work on a word document I had previously started. The previous save was on both my hard drive and a usb key. When I saved my newest work, I went to back it up on my usb, but instead of copying from my hard drive to my usb, I accidentally copied from my usb to my hard drive, which just saved over everything I had just written, putting me back where I had been before I started that day.

I hope thats not too confusing. Basically I know Recuva can't help me get back deleted files, but can it help me in this case, where I've saved over my work? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:18 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25324 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25320 I am trying to recover files from my JVC hard disk drive camcorder.

The files are found in excellent condition/chance for recovery and when I go to recover, the progress bar doesn't move at all and nothing happens. I tried recovering 1 file at a time as well as all files at once (about 400MB), let the program run for 2 days, but no progress was made.

Any ideas? ]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:11:44 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25320 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25317
In any case, just wanted to throw that out there. Thanks!

- John...
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percents went way past 100. estimated time changes about 5x per second, ranging from 2 hours to 40 days. here's an attachment. when it went past 100%, it got kinda confused, then started drawing another progress bar, which reached its end at 500%, but i'm at 531% right now.. ]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:07:12 -0400 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24831 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24871
Am I to understand that these photos/ads are imbedded forever after I view them? Is there any way to prevent this? Surely, all this junk is taking up good usable memory space.

OK...I admit I'm technically challenged but had good luck so far since I bought my pc in 2006 with only a couple minor glitches; I'm aware of "cookies", add ons and pop-up ads certainly, but didn't know everything I ever scanned online stays on my pc, even stuff I don't recall having looked at, i.e., auto ads, real estate promos, entertainers and celebrities, photos of politicians, and people's photos that I don't have a clue as to their identity, not to mention all the miscellaneous icons and bits and pieces that I don't even recognize .

How do I get rid of it, and can Recuva help me? Try not to laugh too hard, ok?]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:29:46 -0400 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24871 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25277
One feature I would love to see is the ability to scan for a "lost" partition (Recuva cannot recover from drives it cannot see!).
It happens at times, that the NTFS or FAT32 MFT becomes corrupted, causing the drive to suddenly appear as "RAW" & blank!

This is very frustrating, because sometimes that represents hundreds of gigs of files! Can you add the ability to scan for "lost" partitions so the user can select a partition to recover, then start the recovery from that partition Recuva found? You can download a demo of Handy Recovery to see what I mean!

Sometimes that is the difference in being successful & having 0 files to recover at all!

Thanks!

P.S. I intend to check & see if Recuva can recover from password protected user accounts. I know Handy Recovery can, & it amazes me that in windows, a password protected account simply generates a "access denied" or some message like that when you left click the password protected user account, in addition to showing the properties as blank/0 mb when you right click that user & choose properties! However, when you enter the password & log-in, it seems fine & it has "all" the space back?

Running Handy Recovery makes it easy to recover from password protected accounts that either you don't have the password to, or their password protected account became corrupted so that it no longer "logs in" like it used to. I do hope Recuva has this feature, so I will check later on.

Thanks!]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:11:51 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25277 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25083
Recuva is as close as I've come to finding a perfect utility. It does exactly what it says, does it efficiently and quickly. Does it way better than most of it's competitors (most of which you have to pay for). So how can you improve on perfection?
If only it had an option to run without needing user intervention? There have been times when I wanted to run it on a machine. I knew what type of files I wanted to find, the dates they were deleted and which drive it was on. But I wanted to do this in the background or in the night or just schedule it, but I could not use Recuva. I had to use 'PhotoRec', which did what I needed but I'd have preferred to use Recuva.

You already have a config/ini file. I should be able to put the recovery directory and file types to recover in there . The only issue would be choosing the filesystem to scan. Most times it would be 'C:' drive. Hopefully if you implement this I would also be able to choose other filesystems or USB drives!!

The one other nice to have (or 'Holy Grail' even) is scanning network mounted drives!!

Thank you in advance. I look forward to the PERFECT utility.]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:03:37 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25083 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24949
With regards, Eduardo]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:48:13 -0400 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24949 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25087 Recuva can take a while to scan. And a whole scan can take an eternity. You should be able to pause in case you need the RAM for something else. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:37:40 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25087 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25254
My suggestion is: since Recuva is already free, why not releasing source code, too? It will have many advantages, IMHO:
- some users feel that a freeware is less powerful than a commercial software: instead, an open source tool is perceived as a tool for nerds, really powerful.
- an open source Recuva would allow third-party developers to write plugins and extensions: i.e. a plugin to identify and reconstruct a specific file format, or a plugin to work on special devices (like magneto-optical drives)
- an open source program would be easily ported on other platforms (Mac, Linux)
- with a GPL license, all improvements added by third-party developers have to be GPL, too, so Piriform would be able to integrate the best new features in the official version
- An open source Recuva would be listed on all sites promotin free software (and it would be easier to find, since it would be the only easy-to-use recovery tool in its category): that would bring more users to Piriform.
- The availability of source code would help many programmers to understand better how file systems and drives work, and that would help all software development

In that way, I think that Recuva could become THE recovery tool, and overcome all competitors.]]> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:50:52 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25254 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25147
TIA for the help.]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:08:26 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25147 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24879
Will this be recoverable by Recuva, I just ran a quick scan and it didn't find anything related to the profile that had been delete. The files were deleted by thunderbird. Its running a deep scan, but from reading the documentation I don't think it will be able to recover these files, is that correct.

Thanks.]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:03:47 -0400 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24879 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25263
Is it better to run defraggler before doing a recovery, or will that make things worse?

Just wondering!

]]> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:47:56 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25263 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25220
However, after a while, the PC gets a BSOD and reboots. Taking a look at the Windows event log, it seems that there has been hundreds of drive errors with bad blocks. As it's found the 51000 files, I presume that the data is not on these bad blocks and so I dont need to use Recuva to scan them.

Is there any way to tell Recuva to ignore the bad blocks?

Thanks in anticipation...]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:19:20 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25220 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25215
I have recommended your product to others and doing the above would be a nice gesture to as fully support those older sys users as best as possible under the limitations that would need to be given.]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:06:14 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25215 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25201 Can someone guide me to finding these files in less time than this?

Snowman]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:52:12 -0500 http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25201