Been there done that!
Nothing was written to the drive after the quick format. I did try "Complete File Search" of the "physical drive". It did come back and listed the "recovered" files, and I saved all of them my hard drive.
I can only open 5 of the 70 PowerPoints that your program recovered. The rest will NOT open in PowerPoint. For example when I try to open the recoverd file "Chapter1.ppt", PowerPoint it tells me: "PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by C:\Chapter1.ppt" If I go back to your program and click on the same file, your preview window Property / Value displays the type as PowerPoint and gives me all the info about the file (Author, Title, Created, etc.)
Here is the log file:
EventLog
Starting search of Lost Files on drive 3\
Completed search of drive 3
There were 4993 FAT file system entries found.
Number of SectorClusters = 1
SectorClusters: 32 - 524 - 281
Total Counts = 281
Average Counts = 281
Sigma = 0
Found partition at 524
Number of found partitions: 1
Partition 1 starts at 524
FAT Size guess 991
FAT Start Sector guess 0
Found 372 directory entries in partition 1
All searches completed.
A total of 4538 file(s) were located.
Time Elapsed: 13.1197 (mins)
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