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Flash files restored but with generic names. Partition not found.
Hi everyone,
my 128 gig flash drive became unreadable. Probably, I suspect, as a result of me persistently using it on both PC and Mac. I followed Jumanji's breakdowns of TestDisk and Partition Wizard from Nov 2012 and both products recovered files. TestDisk found 964 files and I recovered 942 before I got tired of waiting for the estimated 3 more hours. The files are fine but have generic names and no directory structure. After reaching the Quick Search point my experience diverged from Jumanji's example in that TD couldn't find a partition.
I could recover files though:
but this is how they're defined:
This is, of course, miles better than nothing but many of the files are used by editing projects which now can't locate them. I couldn't work out if TD could restore any more information so I tried the demo version of PW Minitool Power Data Recovery. I let this run it's full course and it found only 430 files. I can only restore 1gb of these and a couple of test files shows that they are still generically named without directories. I haven't bothered to complete this as TD has very probably already done it for me.
Is there any way I can restore the original filesystem and filenames?
Thanks in advance
Pete Johnson