Suite à une récupération d’un disque dur passé en RAW les fichiers .pdf ne s’ouvrent plus?

[jacques_9683]

Bonjour,

Suite à une récupération d’un disque dur externe passé en RAW (avec 4DDiG) les fichiers .pdf ne s’ouvrent plus. Ni avec Acrobat Reader ni via Google. J’ai essayé l’outil de réparation de Ilove pdf, sans succès. D’autres fichiers tels que .docx  par contre sont récupérés sans problème.

Il y a-t-il une solution ?

[try67]

The files that are 1KB are corrupt and can be removed. The other ones have a reasonable file-size, but it's very hard to know what's going on under the hood without seeing a sample file... First thing to try, though, is to copy them to the local machine and open them from there. If that doesn't work, try opening them in a plain-text editor (like Notepad) and look at the first line. What does it show?

[Amal.]

Hi there,

Hope you are doing well, and sorry to hear about the trouble with your recovered PDF files.

++ Adding to the discussion

When a drive becomes RAW and data is recovered using third-party software, some files can get partially corrupted or lose essential internal structure, which prevents them from opening properly.

Here are a few steps you can try:

1. Attempt re-recovery – If possible, run the recovery tool again and choose a deep scan or sector-by-sector recovery. The previous recovery may have missed file segments.

2. Check file size and structure – If the PDF sizes are unusually small (a few KB), it’s likely that the actual content wasn’t recovered, and the file may be beyond repair.

3. Backup before further recovery attempts – Make a copy of all recovered files before running any repair tools again to avoid further corruption.

Unfortunately, if the recovery software didn’t retrieve the full file structure, even repair tools might not restore the PDF completely.

Regards

Amal

[jacques_9683]

Thanks for your answer.

I eventually saved most of them after a second scan disc.8)
For the rest, just bad luck. 😭

Jacques.