Win 10 File Recovery.

Hi,

Im trying to use Win 10 File Recovery (for the first time) to recover stuff from a friend's external USB disk.

In Explorer the disk says it's empty; however winfr with /x finds 4,500 files and can recover them. The filenames, however, are gone - replaced by 01...02... etc. It 'subfolders' them by file type.

I'm now trying winfr /r to see if that recovers the filenames as well. (The 'default' scan with no options set didn't find any files at all.)

So:

1. winfr...blah... no options = no files found.

2. winfr...blah... /x = 4500 files but with no original filenames.

3. winfr...blah... /r = still running but looks like it's finding files; don't know yet whether it'll recover them with their original names yet.

Q1: Is this name thing a "standard feature" of winfr?

Q2: Is it better to try restoring/repairing MFT etc. before resorting to winfr? What's the "best" order in which to try restoring files when Explorer says there aren't any.

Thanks for listening 🙂

Fen.