Novice needs some Hand-Holding on Recovery
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:30 pm
I was able to use the demo program to take a peek at my supposedly ailing 320 Gig eSata drive so I purchased R-Data. I ran a scan which took around 11 hours or so. I inserted a 4GB USB stick in my USB port to save the 80 MB file, but it refused to allow me to do that, insisting I have to put that special file in My Documents/User etc. so I went along with that. So now, 24 hours later, I'm trying to "recover" or extract the files on the problematic drive. No dice, and no basic hand-holding instructions (that I can find or understand) that show you step-by-step how to move the desired file(s) to a new location on another HDD. I have a 500 GB USB HDD plugged in and ready for the recovered files. Oh yeah... while I tried highlight and move a file, the program crashed. So I restarted and it wanted to do another 11 hour scan? I don't get it... wasn't the reason a special scan file was created in My Documents so that you don't have to do the same thing over and over? So I have some questions from a novice LOL:
1. Do I have to do an 11 hour scan every time I want to look at this drive?
2. How do I simply move the recovered files from the problematic drive to the new 500GB USB drive?
3. I have several movies that I archived onto this 320 gig drive. Will R-Tools see those files correctly grouped as they are probably in Video_TS files?
3. If I can figure out (with someone's help) how to pull all my desired files off the old 320 Gig drive, can I then reformat that drive once I have extracted/moved all those files off the drive?
Again... while I can follow instructions fairly well, I am not a computer repairman no am I a rocket science guy. I'm a senior citizen who ran into a problem probably by us putting too much data (pictures, movies, etc.) on the 320 Gig drive. Thanks in advance for any/all help.
Doc
1. Do I have to do an 11 hour scan every time I want to look at this drive?
2. How do I simply move the recovered files from the problematic drive to the new 500GB USB drive?
3. I have several movies that I archived onto this 320 gig drive. Will R-Tools see those files correctly grouped as they are probably in Video_TS files?
3. If I can figure out (with someone's help) how to pull all my desired files off the old 320 Gig drive, can I then reformat that drive once I have extracted/moved all those files off the drive?
Again... while I can follow instructions fairly well, I am not a computer repairman no am I a rocket science guy. I'm a senior citizen who ran into a problem probably by us putting too much data (pictures, movies, etc.) on the 320 Gig drive. Thanks in advance for any/all help.
Doc