Andrina Bealey Kay Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 I'm looking at downloading Recuva and want to know once I have done this and got the files back, does the software repair corrupted files? If not what are my options please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 20, 2019 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2019 No, Recuva will copy what is there, byte by byte, no more or less. It's very difficult to advise how to proceed without knowing anything about the file or system or corription, except that it won't be easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrina Bealey Kay Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Hi Augeas The files which are causing the problems seem to be the excel and word ones... is there a toll or software that mends corruption? All my files and folders in question are on a usb stick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 20, 2019 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2019 If you mean is does the paid Recuva fix corruption then no. I don't know how the corruption was caused and if I did I doubt that there's a simple fix. Is it file deletion on FAT32? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrina Bealey Kay Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 yes, they have been overwritten by jpg's and mov files.... god knows how thats happened and they have disappeared - so i guess whatever caused this error has deleted them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 20, 2019 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2019 If they have been overwritten then there's little chance of recovery. You could try a deep scan, but the odds aren't great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJD Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I have somehow lost volumes of files on a 2TB USB drive. Luckily, I have most of the files stored elsewhere, but the recent ones I do not. The software sees the files, restores them (claiming there are 0 errors), but when I try to open the XLSX , PDF, or JPG files, they are claimed to be corrupt. TXT files seem to recover fine. Am I missing something? As soon as I saw that the files were missing, I undocked the USB drive and have not written anything to it. Most all of the files show that they are in excellent state. Any guidance / assistance would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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