Hi Graham,
Thanks again for excellent answers.
Again, a follow-up if I understand your previous answers correctly.
--You indicate that recovery by the "MFT Method" (I assume that is a choice when starting the "Recover My Files" Program) will give the correct "names" of the files, but the location of the files and/or the files themselves might still be corrupted since the location information was coming from the MFT.
--You indicate that recovery by the "Header and Footer Method" will essentially ignore the MFT and file names...BUT, might find the actual files and all connected fragments of the files....but without the correct file names.
It seems as if doing a "recovery" by the "Header and Footer" method gives a better chance of finding the continguous fragments of the files and, therefore, a better chance of recovering the complete, un-corrupted files, but without the correct file names.
?? Is there a way, or reason, to do BOTH recovery methods (i.e. MFT Method AND "Header and Footer" method")....which would connect a correct file names (i.e from the "MFT Method")....with the complete un-corrupted files (via the "Header and Footer Method
?? Possibly, the "Tree Structure" would give a "one-to-one mapping" of "file name" (MFT Method) in one directory....which could be matched to the un-corrupted file (Header and Footer Method) in that recovery directory?
Thanks again.