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Go to Conttrol Panel, Hardware and Sound, View Devices and Printers. Right click on the printer and select Create Shortcut. It's not worth faffing about with Recuva to recreate a shortcut.

Well, who knows what Windows is doing, or what regstry permissions apply, or what errors are appearing. It isn't the end of the world to run the registry cleaner a few times. By the way you won't last too long here if you continue with your WTFs.

It does if you use Wipe Free Space (or did, I haven't used it recently). I've never run it from Drive Wiper so I don't know if this is what you are referring to. It could be that WFS is run as part of Cleaner, which gives a total run time, where Drive Wiper is a stand-alone process.

Hmm, member for over twelve months, odd bursts of spammy and not very helpful posts, and a rather dodgy IP address, I think MJ will have to go.

Starting a new thread helps too. There's not much from almost five years ago that's relevant now.

Ah, missed the star, so ta. I have an Online Users panel, but only within a thread or within the Browse panel, not in the Activity panel which is my default view. When I open Online Users I get three pages of Guests, so I won't be doing that very often. But of all my niggles, I think that being unable to see the real post time, and it being in US form, is the worst. Certainly for those who have to be on the forum multiple times a day.

And - as far as I can see - there's no direct link to Piriform.com, and I can't see in the Activity panel any indication that I have posted in any particular thread. Or any indication that a user is online or not (without hovering over the userid).

I think that the answer is far more mundane, more likely Piriform's code which identifies the type of disk is flaky. A better 'conspiracy' against users is why Piriform, and the majority of other cleaning software, offers multiple overwrites, the efficacy of which has been debunked for aome twenty years or more. Oh yes, all versions of CC recognise all of my 2.5" disks, laptop and PC, as HDD, which is what they are. And yes, I do know why Piriform include the useless multiple overwrites, if they don't then less enlightened users will pick software that does.

Any way of changing the mouse-over time to UK format (i.e. dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy)?

Well, you could post on the Eraser forum. This is a nigh-on ten year old thread on another manufacturer's forum that, to be blunt, really has no relevance to your problem.

Whilst it is possible that more space is required for recovery than the original disk size (due to multiple entries for deleted files pointing to the same disk space), a factor of 14 to 1 is rather excessive. I'd suggest ignoring it but I don't think that Recuva will let you go ahead without the space being available. You could look at the list of found files and see if there are any obvious errors, such as a few very large files, and drop these from your recovery. Or recover a subset of the files at a time, if that is either desired or possible.

I like to see everything. There may be posts I've read that I might reply to later.

And there's no date and time on posts, just n hours ago. If I know I last visited the forum at 10.30 last night, it would be, and was, easy to just look back at posts with a later time. Now I have to work out whether n hours ago <> current time + (24 - (convert last logon time to 24 hrs)).

I guess we're talking about Disk Analyzer? I further guess that Other Files are all those filenames without an extension, or a classifiable extension.

I use FF exclusively and I have some IE temp interner files also. Try looking at the expanded list and right clicking on one and select Open Containing Folder, and you should see the files. I don't bother about these, CC cleans them. It's just the way that Windows works, in mysterious ways one could say.

Your card is probably FAT32. When a file is deleted in FAT32 the first two bytes of the first cluster address in the directory are zeroed. So there is still a value for the first cluster, but it is incorrect. Recuva will follow this value and return what it finds, which for all intents and purposes is rubbish. You could try a deep scan which should find the deleted files. However a deep scan can only identify the first fragment of a file, so if the file is fragmented you may not get all your data back. Try it.

No they can't, or at least not as far as I know. It's due to the nature of the 'file' that Recuva recovers, which is not as far as I know filterable.

I would recover them to a separate folder on any drive or partition that isn't the one you're recovering from. This won't miraculously fill your blank files with relevant data though.

There's no difference in recovery capabilities betyween Recuva free and professional. You might find a video player that will attempt to play the recovered file, but the odds are against it as, and if, the start section has been overwritten. Professional data recovery might do the trick, at a cost.

Check the Filename box top left to select all files. Click on the column headings to sort that column. Switch to Advanced Mode and put a file or path part or full name in the Filename or Path box top right.

That's what it's supposed to do. Wiping is not really the correct term, but everyone uses it, so we have to live with it. 'Wiping' is done by creating a file, or files, to overwrite all the spare space on the device, and then when the device is full deleting them. It's scary but you and your disk should survive.

Yes, CC is one of those tools, but it deals with the MFT in an entirely different way from Recuva. There is no legitimate way to modify individual entries directly in the MFT whilst under the control of Windows (that I know of). The screenshot is from BCWipe, and as far as I can see concerns deleting live files. To 'wipe' the MFT entry of a live file all you need to do is rename it to random characters before deleting it, which is what CC, and apparently BCW, does (although BCW does it at a file level). You can't rename a deleted file, nor is there any way of asking NTFS to do it for you, which is why Recuva doesn't try. You can wipe the MFT with CC of course, and it would be nice if this were offerred as a separate option instead of having to run a full disk wipe.

No longer recognised, freezes pc, RAW format, program crashes, formatted, chkdsk, silent drives.... I think it's probably time to invest in some new disks. It's not even clear if you're looking for something in particular or just looking.

Recuva will recover whatever clusters the deleted file previously pointed to, irrespective of the contents. If the recovered data isn't in a video format - i.e. part of it has been overwritten - then it is difficult to get any software to play it. It isn't like a book or a film reel, which can survive the start being chopped off.

This option isn't available as it is not possible to modify the MFT (where the file and folder names are held). CC does this by renaming the file before deletion, which is legitimate. Secure file deletion is available in CC, but not on an individual file basis.