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Here's a summary of what happened. Prepare Windows for dual-system with Linux - disable all of fast-boot, secure-boot, and hibernation. Create NTFS partition in Windows (brand new partition). Reboot into Linux. Run PhotoRec. Reboot into Windows. The partition is reported to be empty. Reboot in Linux ...

chkdsk. Windows reported the partition was locked, and asked it I wanted to unlock it. I said No, as it said it would delete open handles. I booted back up in Linux, and the files are gone. (!!!) I'm not bothering to try to restore them, as I can just run PhotoRec again. In researching this, I see a ...

I enabled expert mode briefly, to read the options and look them up. Then I disabled it. I never ran with expert mode enabled. I don't recall an unformat option. I didn't need to do anything special in photorec. I was working off of a GNU ddrescue copy of a failing hard disk. I ran photorec on the ...

Linux is writing files to a Windows exFat partition on a Windows OS disk which are INVISIBLE to Windows. How do I make these files visible to Windows?

I used Photorec, from Linux (running on an external SSD), to recover files to this exFat partition (internal drive).

The exFat partition is 62 ...

I ran PhotoRec (Linux) to recover some documents.

The first directory, recup_dir.1 contains a single entry, an empty directory named Recovery

Recup_dir.1 and recup_dir.2 contain many files, but no Recovery directory.

I'm making sure this is correct. I thought the first 500 files went to recup_dir ...