iRecover - advice & error

[jtheobald]

Hi,

After a lot of messing about I've managed to bring my machine up without RAID! This means I am running iRecover in Full W7/64 Bit.
It is definately running quicker. It is in the process of trying to restore the files. It showing a 2694GB, 4.6m files. I don't know if it's normal but most files are going into the Fragments directory, I also have multiple copies of files but only one valid (maybe why there's so many files). When complete how do I copy only the files which have been sucessfully recoverd?

Thanks.

[Tom]

It is in the process of trying to restore the files.

When complete how do I copy only the files which have been sucessfully recoverd?

I'm confused. File copying is in progress and you ask how to copy the files? Are you perhaps referring to separating the correct files from the corrupt/damaged files after the copying has finished? Because that would simply be a matter of manual labour...

[Joep]

question: did your array contain virtual volumes?

[jtheobald]

No it didnt contain virtual volumns.

If it's a matter of manually going through each directory to see what I need it will take me months.

I am slightly confused when you said I didnt have enough space. I have a 1TB drives and i-Recover says there's 4694 GB. Am I missing something?

John.

[Joep]

Hi,

You said, 5353 GB ... trying to restore the files on a 950GB disk. 5353GB > 950GB. 5353GB is over 5 TB.

I asked fror the virtual volume because it can sometimes explain more files than expected, and that's would have been 'fixable' by enabling the virtual volume filter in advanced options. I'm still confused because you said earlier you expected some 150.000 files and now we find over 4 million. Maybe files were frequently opened, modified and saved again. In that case it is possible that different versions of a file are found by iRecover.

Anyway, we or any software can not decide which files to keep or not. So iRecover (and other data recovery software) just recovers files. Our file validation isn't failproof. A green file isn't by definition valid and a red one isn't by definition corrupt. We can only validate that a file of a given type contains structures that such a file type will normally contain.

Data recovery is hardly ever convenient, it is a lot of work, and recovery of files isn't the end of the process. If multiple versions of files exist you can only find the right one by opening the files. It is advised to keep copies of the others as well.

RAID 0 doubles the odds regarding dataloss due to hardware malfunction.

[jtheobald]

I've sent you an email.

john.

[Joep]

Hello,

Ok, will take care of it. Thanks for the logfile! Wish we had that before as it clearly shows where zillions of useless MFT entries come from and we could have tweaked that (for iRecover to ignore those).

[jtheobald]

Joep,

The problem I had was no computer to read it/send it from.

Thanks for sorting out for me and I'm sorry it didnt work out.

John.