A good friend of mine sent me a hard drive via mail. It contained a lot of videos that he just recently put on the folder. So I plug in the hard drive and Windows says that I have to format the disc because it can't read anything from it. Obviously I did not proceed but soon realized that I need to recover the data from the disc.
Why Windows couldnt read anything from that drive remains a mystery. Maybe it got corrupted during transport via mail (even though it was a secure transfer and that packaging was soft and safe).
Anyway, I started my go-to recovery software EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Already after a few minutes of scanning the expected folder structure with the videos appears in the preview.
Even the files with "size", "modified date", "file name", etc. pop up.
However, when I wait until the scan is finished, which lasted ~10 hours, exactly these folders disappear again for some reason. I then started the recovery process again and stopped it after the files and folders appear in the results and immediately choose to recover them. This also does not work however. The progress bar halts at 1% for as long as an hour (before I cancel it) and nothing happens.
My question is: Why are the video files found and listed with all details, but I can't actually recover them?
I also tried "Stellar Data Recovery" (listed the folder, but not files inside), and "Active Partition Recovery Ultimate" to no avail.
Can you recommend what I can do? Any other tools?
UPDATE: Testdisk finds the desired folder "Sugpall", but when I recover it, it says "Copy done! 0 ok, 0 failed". So nothing was inside again.
UPDATE 2: Another image from Testdisk.
