Data Recovery
Hi,
Your file and folder names are all stored in a table at the start of the disk called the Master File Table (MFT). When Windows wants to find a file, it goes and looks up the MFT, a bit like the index in a book, to get the file name and its location on the disk.
In your scenario, a lot of changes have been made to the start of the disk and it sounds like the MFT has been overwritten/corrupted/destroyed.
Once the MFT is gone, you can't get the file and folder names back.
The only search you can now run is a Complete File Search, which identifies specific file types by their header and footer, but because it can no longer use the MFT, the program gives these files names like "Recovered_JPEG_1".
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