Resolved File recovery

Hi, is anyone familiar with "Recuva ", I would like to know if there is a way to select all files in one. I have not found a way to do that and trying to tick a few thousand files one by one

 

Not familar with Recuva but the standard windows way would be select all (control A) and press space to tick. Have you tried that?

 

Select a drive in the drop-down menu then click Scan to list everything > tick Filename > Recover. However, they may not all be recoverable.

 

thank you wildfire, and BurrWalnut, the standard windows way ctrl+A does not work, but BurrWalnut's advice obviously is the way to go. Silly me I did not realize what the "File" was for as I was looking for a "select all files" or something of that nature.
But, this program is a little beauty I could not believe the job it did, I had an older 40Gig HD that I had formatted but then remembered I had some programs on there that I had downloaded from the Internet nothing drastic, but I thought it would be nice to have them back. This little beauty restored just about the lot that was on that old drive 21 Gig's of it and every restored program works, even Office 2003 without a problem.
I would highly recommend "Recuva" to anyone for a free recovery program.
Thanks Guys
hawk22

 

Sometimes, Recuva will not recover almost all files which is a shame but it's a great way to recover if you havent touched the mass memory (ie. formatted, delete, save, formatted, save)

 

this 40 Gig Seagate drive did have a full Format.

 

you don't happened to add more files and then re-formatted, do you? Which is a good idea to recover. I'm glad you recovered your files but in my case, I said good byes to some of my files.

 

I forgot to add that Recuva does indeed recover all files but copying them back takes some chances. For example: there are 100 files recovered but 30 of them has been marked as bad so they cannot be recovered. Only 70 of them has been recovered back.

I apologize for the lack of info.

 

So I need to defragment my mass storage? Hmmm....I think I should! Thanks for another great advice. I will look forward for it. Perhaps if there'll be a time when I need to actually recover some files. But right now, I'm on the safe side with frequent back ups.

Thanks for the additional tips. I just learned that today. I'll tell my brother about what you said

 

You are absolutely right Pete, in my case I did not touch the drive after I formatted and it was in good condition before the format. I did have some files where it stated "Unrecoverable" but they where very few considering the total amount was around 92 thousand files 21 Gig worth.

In regards to copying them back Recuva recommends not to restore them back to the source drive, but to create a folder in another hard drive to restore in, as the chances for a recovery are much higher that way.
I used an external USB drive case for the source drive and an internal drive for destination.