[vee6]

finally after 3000+!! minutes the search is complete. I had to do a full format recover as the fast format recover found nothing at all.

FAT32 Start Sector guess 119520
Found 4618 directory entries in FAT partition 1
All searches completed.
A total of 12779 file(s) were located.
Time Elapsed: 3272.79636666667 (mins)

The software has located 12000 + files... all well and good but as you suggested was expecting to find the 'Folder View' populated with the file structure, this sadly is blank.
the prieview on any of the JPG , bmp , gif etc etc files is corrupted too..
Most of the filenames are 'Recovered File .......jpg' does this mean the files although are there are in fact corrupted and unrecoverable ?

I have tried to save the 'recovered files' to a different drive but the pictures for example do no open.
I exported the list to CSV and there appears to be some filenenames. i can email this to you if it helps any
also at the bottom under the 'Event Log ' it says 12779 files ( 17.9 Gig) . that is way way lower than what is on the drive ! more like 179 GIG