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Old 02-28-2009, 01:14 PM
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The files found in "File Type View" which are called names like "Recovered_FileType_1" are found by locating the header and footer of the file.

The files found in "Folder View" are found by locating the partition index (the Master File Table) at the start of the disk. An MFT record for a file contains the file and folder name, and identifies the clusters that the data for a file occupies on the disk. Your problem is that the MFT table that has been found is corrupt and the MFT entries are not pointing to the correct data locations.

There is one more search you could try. Run a Complete Format Recover on the physical drive and search only for JPEG and BMP files. This should find enough files to assist the program to all the available MFT records, but not overload and slow down the process by finding to many files. Hopefully then you will be able to find the file and folder names in Folder View and be able to preview and save the files properly.
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