Lots of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files

[andrewig]

I'm trying to recover a disk with many large VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) files, and the tool seems to try to read from inside the files (sticking a bunch of junk in the LostFiles segments) rather than trying to recover the VHD. The VHDs never appear in the "Mark files to recover" tree and therefore I am never able to recover them.

The $Mft seems to be OK, but the partition tables are hosed.

Any suggestions?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Once the run is completed, right click the ROOT folder. Use the selection feature available in the context menu to select *.VHD. This way, you find all of these regardless of their location - if they are buried down somewhere. Other than that, there is nothing I can suggest.

[andrewig]

Tried that -- a couple of them show up, but the biggest ones (14GB) do not.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

May be useful to retry with "quick scan" off. In "Advanced Configuration", under "Common filesystem analysis", set "Quick scan" to "Disabled", then make a full rescan. If this does not help, send me a private message with your order number so we can arrange the refund for you.