Disk recovery problem
Your thoughts please. I am recovering files from a healthy drive that was soft formatted in error a few years ago. It is a Western Digital 2TB USB hard drive. I am using TestDisk by Britec and have been unable to contact them of my concerns. Recovery is to 2TB docked hard drive.with spare capacity of 729GB.The recovery needs may exceed this so I am manually pruning the directories the recovery app makes. After 20 hours of recovery 11% has been recovered so far. In pruning the files there seems to be more repetition than expected. In 50 directories the same MS Word item has appeared 250 times. Sound file items about the same. With 3577 directories created so far I am concerned I will get MS Word same documents over 15 thousand times. The Britec web page referred to is no longer valid and for some reason I cannot make comment on the many videos touching on the use of TestDisk. I am aware there are many good paid for apps for recovery but right now funds are in short supply.