Photos missing after defragmenting
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Hehe, it does go to show backups are extremely useful, luckily the owner of the PC has come through and apparently had the photos backed up to December so not too much at risk. Like you (And many others) I'm an advocate backups (Especially NAS automated ones)
I'll have a word with the owner and see if they want to invest in the software
That's another possibility as the laptop appears to have taken a beating before reaching me (When I dismantled it the fan had blades missing
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It's worth a shot, but surely if Linux picks them up then Recuva should?
The computer was running Windows 7 and it is a 500GB HDD
Never had any issues with Win7 / defrag. No power glitch?
Some defrag tools do a cleanup on the disk first (less to defrag) but they might use dumb file pattern matching that can delete the wrong things. Then the disk is defragged, and there's no chance of file recovery because everything has been overwritten. I've even seen defrag tools that zero out all empty space as a part of the defrag to prevent such recovery. Both for security and so that if you need to recover files subsequently, you get the post-defragged version, not the old version that's now effectively an unlinked duplicate.
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Nope, it was on charge and had a full battery
That could be it but why would it delete the files in the first place
That could be it but why would it delete the files in the first place
People keep loads of crap on their hard drives. There's a a lot of people that never empty their trash, or run a manual cleanup. If you do a disk cleanup first, it's less crap to defrag and makes the defrag faster.
A lot of tools have some kind of pattern matching for cleanup that you can adjust (stuff like *.tmp). If you get that pattern wrong, or your file extension is the same as a regularly used and deleted filetype, then there can be these kinds of unexpected consequences.
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I know, I did a disc cleanup and used CCleaner to get rid of the junk and there was still loads of stuff left. I'm concerned over how there is no trace when I use file recovery software as I've had dying drives that have displaced something using these tools but this one is displaying nothing
I know, I did a disc cleanup and used CCleaner to get rid of the junk and there was still loads of stuff left. I'm concerned over how there is no trace when I use file recovery software as I've had dying drives that have displaced something using these tools but this one is displaying nothing
As I've said upstream, some defrag tools wipe the free space.
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Ahh yes (Forgot that). I'm surprised the one built in Windows is that complex
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Not the inbuilt Windows 7 one doesn't. Suggestions like this only serve to confuse matters.
Edit: However, we can all agree that defragging is pointless on a modern PC.
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Is this due to modern HDDs providing better performance or are the gains just not worth it?
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Did you deep scan in recurve or not?
try it again, deep scan, all files.
try it again, deep scan, all files.
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That and Windows 7 does it automatically.
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I did for 5 hours (It wanted 22) but still nothing, I didn't let it complete the full 22 hours in case the drive was dying as there was still other data on it.
Only if it's enabled
