Undelete scope? Or just directions?
Posted: 20 Dec 2014, 01:55
Undelete doesn't seem to be doing anything close to what I want. This may be related to the fact that I accidentally did a Quick Format of the entire drive instead of just a file or folder and would like to recover it, but even so...
I opened Salamander in Administrator mode, invoked Undelete, then selected the now-nearly-empty drive. Following that, I see several folders with the following names:
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$RECYCLE.BIN
{All Deleted Files}
Directory000198
Directory000202
Directory000206
Directory000210
Directory000218
Directory000230
MSI129f1.tmp
MSIb5ee1.tmp
MSOCache
System Volume Information
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The above isn't very useful as the folders have very little information in them. The {All Deleted Files} folder just has files such as "eula.rtf" (repeated several times, though with different sizes), SetupResources.dll and LocalizedData.xml (likewise) as well as other files only listed once. I cannot operate on any file in the listing, but I can copy it to another drive where it can be accessed. The problem is, there aren't enough files listed to even begin to reference all the files that are currently hiding on the drive.
How am I supposed to recover any files, folders or (hopefully) the entire drive?
I opened Salamander in Administrator mode, invoked Undelete, then selected the now-nearly-empty drive. Following that, I see several folders with the following names:
=========================================
$RECYCLE.BIN
{All Deleted Files}
Directory000198
Directory000202
Directory000206
Directory000210
Directory000218
Directory000230
MSI129f1.tmp
MSIb5ee1.tmp
MSOCache
System Volume Information
=========================================
The above isn't very useful as the folders have very little information in them. The {All Deleted Files} folder just has files such as "eula.rtf" (repeated several times, though with different sizes), SetupResources.dll and LocalizedData.xml (likewise) as well as other files only listed once. I cannot operate on any file in the listing, but I can copy it to another drive where it can be accessed. The problem is, there aren't enough files listed to even begin to reference all the files that are currently hiding on the drive.
How am I supposed to recover any files, folders or (hopefully) the entire drive?