I'll definitely look into this. Thanks a lot.
Was it able to recover or repair any corrupted files in your case?
Yes, 100% in all but one case. Only got 99% in that one. Of course your experience may vary, so give it a try with the demo first.
But from my understanding of the way computers work, I don't think the files were actually corrupted in most cases. I believe the pointer to the files, or a major part of the table of contents was somehow corrupted, so it lost where some of the files were actually located on the hard disk. The files themselves, or at least 99% of them were still fully intact on the hard drive, which is what the program can scan for.
It has 4 (maybe 5) levels of scanning. With level 1 being the quickest, and the one I use most often. If it doesn't find what you're looking for, progress to the next level. I've had to use level 4 once before, and that's the one I lost a handful of things. The files opened, but their contents were wrong or glitchy. There's also a box at the bottom to see deleted files and folders. They are marked with strikethrough text.
The program does all the hunting for you. It will show you the identical folder structure that you're used to seeing in Windows. No guessing what files are due to loss of file names that other recovery programs seem to do. You just choose the files you want to recover that it finds, and tell it where to copy them. Of course, as with all recoveries you have to make sure you choose a drive that is not the one you're recovering from, otherwise you will most certainly be writing over the data you're potentially trying to recover.