Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Thanks for reply, Alt. I read somewhere in this forum that when doing an image using R-Studio, the only difference (better saying, disadvantage) between using a byte-to-byte option or compressed (which could help me image even without full space requirements) would be that this image won't be read ...

Hi guys, I'm on a mission of recover as many files possible of an external 1TB NTFS HD after a quick format on Windows 10. It probably had approximately 500GB of files before the incident. After reading many posts in this forum, I still have some questions that I'd like to clarify trying to avoid ...

@Alt, does it also happens using Windows 10?

Yes, that's necessary for larger disks.


What about Windows 10 NTFS formatted disk after quick format using same Windows 10 NTFS partition? Would be possible to recover 100% files if no file has been written on disk after quick format? Or this is ...

Windows 7 can severely undermine successful data recovery after a quick format by extending an empty MFT file to 256KB and effectively killing the information about 229 records of previously stored user's files. Moreover, it may quietly extend the MFT file to 256KB when a fresh disk formatted by ...