Recovering files in a huge folder
Posted: 10 Apr 2014, 21:31
First--I have to say: thanks for this program which pretty much saved my butt. And thanks for the help provided in the forums as well.
My hard drive ceased to be recognized by windows 7 (and other computers as well) and starting showing up as a healthy RAW drive in Disk Management. My only means of accessing the files has been through TestDisk. Despite what seems like a hardware issue (the HD has started making repetitive squeaks at 1 second intervals after a few minutes of use), I have been successful in recovering the most important files (documents, recorded music, photos). The one area I seem to be having trouble in is a certain directory.
The directory / folder should contain about 500 subfolders, each of which contains a video file. The problem is that when I run 'List' (I think it's called), only about 1/3rd of the folders appear there. Every one of these folders were able to be entirely recovered.
In short, is there something I'm totally oblivious to that would not allow me to see all of the subfolders in this folder ? Is there some limit in terms of the number of viewable folders in TestDisk ? Is there some other approach I could be taking than the one I am ? To be clear, my approach has been to List the files as soon as possible, and to select and copy files over to another HD.
My hard drive ceased to be recognized by windows 7 (and other computers as well) and starting showing up as a healthy RAW drive in Disk Management. My only means of accessing the files has been through TestDisk. Despite what seems like a hardware issue (the HD has started making repetitive squeaks at 1 second intervals after a few minutes of use), I have been successful in recovering the most important files (documents, recorded music, photos). The one area I seem to be having trouble in is a certain directory.
The directory / folder should contain about 500 subfolders, each of which contains a video file. The problem is that when I run 'List' (I think it's called), only about 1/3rd of the folders appear there. Every one of these folders were able to be entirely recovered.
In short, is there something I'm totally oblivious to that would not allow me to see all of the subfolders in this folder ? Is there some limit in terms of the number of viewable folders in TestDisk ? Is there some other approach I could be taking than the one I am ? To be clear, my approach has been to List the files as soon as possible, and to select and copy files over to another HD.