(i think i had about 100,000 files on this drive (maybe 84554 is right though) and as far as i knew it was a single partition NTFS format drive.. where this FAT partition came from eludes me!)
OK. in folder view there are only folders with red crosses on - about 600 in the FAT partition and about 12 in the NTFS partition. all are named by a cluster number or something and except for about 10 or so folders they are all completely empty!
The folders that do have stuff in contain only a handful of files from here & there on the drive... not a great deal of use to me - it's really just a drop in the ocean compared to what's actually on this drive.
In the other view it has found 83161 Wav files (i'm a composer & recording musician so wavs is what i'm mainly hoping to retrieve) however they are all unnamed (ie. 'recovered wave 00001' etc.) which will be a MAJOR pain in the *** to sort through.
Boy, this windows disk defragmenter has really f****d things up. can i sue microsoft?
What I'd really love is to be able to see the folder layout again - i have been reading about the MFT - i guess it's corrupted. Is there any way to retreive or rebuild it?
I'm also worried that a lot of these 'recovered wave 00001's will be fragmented and contain short bursts of material from different songs or white noise..
what to do?, what to do?
by the way, i have ordered a 500gb drive to back this stuff up to which will be here on Tuesday. Should i leave the computer on so i don't have to do the scan again? or are we going to try another type of scan or do something with the MFT to see if we can see this drive as it was?
lastly, as we're in different time zones i may stay up one night so we can do this a bit quicker - between what hours are you usually available to exchange emails? (i am in GMT London)
thanks again.
ps. can i recover Sony Acid song files?
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