Toooo many recoverable folders

[tuisiong]

Hi

Long story short... ran a defrag on my FAT32 300GB ext HDD, which stuffed it up and made me . Found RMF on the web and ran a Full Format Recover on the physical disk that went from Saturday night to the following Sunday morning 7 days later which gave me plenty of time to read the forums.... I now know I picked 3 extra file types that most likely slowed it down.

Decided to can the search and do a Full File Search, because I was missing all of my mp3 ID tags and file structure, which eventually turned up zip.

Ran another Full Format Recover but only with the default file types and it took a much more bearable 36hours

Anyway I'm looking at the Folder View and have heaps of folders all with red crosses and names ranging from DIR00143109 to DIR99228614, which from a very rough guess there has got to be about a thousand as they are not sequential.

Question is... the enitre contents of the recovery total 600GB+, I've purchased another 400GB ext HDD to copy the files to, but is there an easier way or do I have to sift through every DIR folder and check each file I want to recover? Only a few of the folders are expandable and contain some of the original folder structure, I noticed some files have many duplicates can I safely assume they are identical in every way?

PS... Is there anyway to get the mp3s tags back and the file structure?? I had almost 10,000 songs and all pedantically organised into folders sorted by artist and albums. Lets just say I spent many long, lonely nights ripping, tagging and filing each one properly.

[GDH]

If you have a problem whilst defraging your PC it can often be serious as the defrag process is doing some serious work on your file system.

It sounds like you have run the best type of search. In your situation I would have run a "Complete Format Recover" of the "physical drive" for the default selected file types ONLY. For a 300 gb drive it is going to take about 30 hours depending on the speed of your PC and how much data is on the drive.

However - it was probably worth first having a crack a the "Fast Format Recover" just in case it worked (but I suspect i might not) as this may have recovered your entire drive with full file and folder structure in less than 2 hours.

Folders with the RED X on them can mean one of two things: 1. it is previously deleted folder and the name can no longer be recovered 2. It is a folder which has not been deleted but the folder name cannot be recovered.

It may help to select the relevant files by using the FILTER button - play with this and give it a go.

Also note that you can select groups of files by holding the SHIFT key down (or CTRL key), hilighting them with your mouse, and pressing the space bar to turn them on and off.

We are currently working on an update wich will rename songs using the tags when they are saved, however it is not quite ready yet. You may want to check out 123renamer.com to see if that will help you.