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I'm not a guru, but here's what I would try: Put in your installation/recovery disk and head to the recovery console. When there type FIXBOOT and if that doesn't work try FIXMBR.

I used heidi eraser to do the freespace wipe. Basically, I've been wanting a new program to verify that my wipe program was doing its job. I have been using a freeware program called Restoration, but I've been searching for something more powerful. I'm hoping Recuva will be that. A better way to verify this would probably be to use some sort of forensic tool and poke around with that. I just ran Restoration and it's finding some items, so there are some items to be recovered. Mostly my firefox cache, dll's, and whatnot.

Yes, when I ran it from the admin account it still crashed at 7%... well it's kinda hard to tell at what percent because it flashes off the screen so fast. Yeah, I heard about the program in another forum so I was just testing it out. I'm not trying to recover any file in specific. I did a freespace wipe recently so I doubt there is much for me to recover anyhow. I like the interface of the program and was really hoping to get to play with it.

Hey, Yes, I can see debug in the banner. I found out what the problem was. I am in my primary limited account and used runas to launch recuva. Recuva would not generate that debug log until I logged in with my admin account and ran it again. I can usually do just about anything from my limited account using runas but this is one of those rare exceptions. Thanks for the replies. Here's the contents: [2008-02-23 19:08:00] [iNFO ] Recuva v1.10.223 [2008-02-23 19:08:00] [iNFO ] System Info: MS Windows XP SP2, Intel Core2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz, 2.0GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT [2008-02-23 19:08:07] [iNFO ] No update available [2008-02-23 19:08:20] [iNFO ] Boot sector: 61KQTlRGUyAgICAAAggAAAAAAAAA+AAAPwD/AD8AAAAAAAAAgACAAI6BpwgAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAY eIoAAAAAAPYAAAABAAAAUbFwdLlwdAIAAAAA+jPAjtC8AHz7uMAHjtjoFgC4AA2OwDPbxgYOABDo UwBoAA1oagLLihYkALQIzRNzBbn//4rxZg+2xkBmD7bRgOI/9+KGzcDtBkFmD7fJZvfhZqMgAMO0 QbuqVYoWJADNE3IPgftVqnUJ9sEBdAT+BhQAw2ZgHgZmoRAAZgMGHABmOwYgAA+COgAeZmoAZlAG U2ZoEAABAIA+FAAAD4UMAOiz/4A+FAAAD4RhALRCihYkABYfi/TNE2ZYWwdmWGZYH+stZjPSZg+3 DhgAZvfx/sKKymaL0GbB6hD3NhoAhtaKFiQAiujA5AYKzLgBAs0TD4IZAIzABSAAjsBm/wYQAP8O DgAPhW//Bx9mYcOg+AHoCQCg+wHoAwD76/60AYvwrDwAdAm0DrsHAM0Q6/LDDQpBIGRpc2sgcmVh ZCBlcnJvciBvY2N1cnJlZAANCk5UTERSIGlzIG1pc3NpbmcADQpOVExEUiBpcyBjb21wcmVzc2Vk AA0KUHJlc3MgQ3RybCtBbHQrRGVsIHRvIHJlc3RhcnQNCgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg6CzyQAAVao= [2008-02-23 19:08:20] [iNFO ] Reading MFT [2008-02-23 19:08:20] [iNFO ] Reading files

Hi, davey I ran recuva in debug mode but it failed to create the Error_log[date].txt file. I installed to C:\Program Files\Recuva, and I'm in there now looking and have hit refresh but no .txt files are present.

Hi, I download the latest version of Recuva and installed it, but when I go to run the program it opens fine but when I start to search for deleted files it goes to around 7% and then the program shuts down and disappears from my screen. Any ideas what is causing this to happen? Thanks for your time.