Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

devilmayfry wrote: Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:16 pm I actually had a very similar issue happen to me which is why I am checking the forums. Not sure if it's related to any Windows update, but I managed to use R-Studio to recover some large data files off of my external hard drive about 2 weeks ago. However, I had not recovered everything and was going to come back to it later on. Now I'm scanning the exact same external drive, having never written anything to it, and those files no longer show up. I'm using the exact same settings and everything. Any ideas on what may be the cause?

devilmayfry wrote: Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:16 pm I believe the only thing that was different is I was using the demo version at the time of the original scan, then purchased an NTFS license in order to recover the data. But there shouldn't be any differences as a result of using a register vs unregistered version right?

winterelegy wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:24 am I mean I get that the data becomes less and less recoverable as the computer does things and writes new data, but I don't get why it can no longer see any trace of the old data.

Data-Medics wrote: Mon Oct 22, 2018 4:16 pm Wait, so you were still running Windows off the drive you were needing to recover data from?

That's a terrible idea. Every second it's running it's creating new data and overwriting older data. That Windows update probably just nuked your hope of getting the files back.