kaspin Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 It seems that Recuva recognises only local (?fixed) discs. However, I would like to be able to recover files on my USB key, which are wiped off if my PC stops abnormally. In fact, I get the message that the USB key needs reformatting, so presumably the registry or index is corrupted. Maybe Recuva wouldn't be able to help in this case, but I also have larger hard discs which connect through a USB connection and it would be nice to be able to use Recuva on these, if the need arises. Thanks for any help or advice.... Kaspin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrRon Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Recuva should recognise all types of removable USB drives. Can you connnect your other USB drives and see if they are picked up by Recuva? If not, are the viewable in Explorer? MrRon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tregdftreter Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 i download just before because i have deleted the wrong files and will not scan C: DRIVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaspin Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 Recuva should recognise all types of removable USB drives. Can you connnect your other USB drives and see if they are picked up by Recuva? If not, are the viewable in Explorer? MrRon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaspin Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 Many thanks for the prompt reply, MrRon. Yes, you're right - Recuva does pick up other USB external disks (I tried with an 80GB disk partitioned into 2 separate parts). Although Explorer recognises my USB key as "removable disk (X:)" (the letter X was allocated by me some time ago), under "properties" it indicates 0 bytes used and RAW file system. However, at the time of the crash (Windows blue screen caused by a conflict between wireless connections on my PC and on my portable) the 1GB key was formated as FAT32 and was over half full of all sorts of files. Unless you can think of any possible "tricks" I could try with Recuva, I'll just have to reformat the USB key and re-build the files from a copy made a couple of months ago....... kaspin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrRon Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 It sounds like the thumbdrive has been damaged and will require reformatting. But this doesn't mean the data is totally gone as reformatting only overwrites the first few bytes of a drive. There are tools available that will attempt to recover data after a reformat, but I'm not aware of any good free ones. Does anyone have any recomendations? MrRon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
login123 Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Hi, Kaspin. This one claims to recover from a drive that has been quick formatted, I have used it but not for that, but here it is: PC INSPECTOR? File Recovery 4.x from http://www.pcinspector.de/ This one is a recovery app, also free. . .not sure about its effectiveness on a damaged or reformatted drive: Avira UnErase Personal from http://www.avira.com/en/products/avira_unerase.html Good luck. The CCleaner SLIM version is always released a bit after any new version; when it is it will be HERE :-) Pssssst: ... It isn't really a cloud. Its a bunch of big, giant servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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