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I am attempting to recover some deleted files on an old HDD using some free recovery software. Currently I am working with Recuva. I did a deep scan on the HDD and it came up with over 1 million video files that it found. During the recovery portion of the process it said it was 'ignoring' over 600 of the files and only recovering like maybe 250 video files.
When trying to watch using the Windows 10 media player almost all of are "unreadable". So, basically I'm not really recovering much data. Does anyone know anything about successfully recovering deleted files? Are paid recovery programs better than the free ones?

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