Alan_B

This topic was bumped after only 18 hours. After 4 days silence I guess the problem has ended or no longer matters.

I WAS anti-touch screen but I LOVE the potential benefits of :- Cheap personalization of my computer; and discouraging the family from using my computer.

I suggest you try rebooting the PC and without running Recuva take a screenshot of all that Windows Disk Management can display concerning this drive, and post the screenshot so we have a better idea of the situation.

That action might have corrupted Chrome installation and/or its user profile, especially if Chrome or one of its processes was still running. Perhaps you need to uninstall and then reinstall all applications that have been corrupted. No normal data recovery utility has the ability to restore Windows system files successfully, some of these files not only need to exist but they also need registration. Even third party applications have special files that need registration.

About 2 years ago when I first moved from XP to Windows 7 I failed to correctly prohibit any Updates from even downloading. After one busy day of creating new documents and setting up desktop shortcuts, I was horrified that a Microsoft update came crashing through and made my system unusable. That destroyed Windows and wiped out a whole day of work that had not yet been backed up. I plugged in the Macrium boot recovery CD and used it first of all to backup C:\ in its thoroughly trashed condition. That took perhaps 8 minutes. Only then did I restore the latest backup of a fully operational C:\ (taking about 6 minutes) and then boot back into Windows as it used to be before my last day of work. Then I mounted the last good image as P:\ and the latest bad image as Q:\ and in less than 1 minute BestSync presented a tree comparison showing every difference between P:\ and Q:\, and I ignored the chaotic differences between \Windows\... and simply selected the differences between the desktop short-cuts and the user documents, and copied to C:\ the latest shortcuts and documents that had been backed up by the Boot Recovery CD. In less than half an hour I retrieved all the previous day's work that Microsoft update had destroyed. I use the 64 bit portable freeware version at http://www.risefly.com/fsedwld.htm

My Macrium Boot discs have never failed me - but I still do not trust that they will boot the next time. Therefore whenever there is an extra benefit from a new update I will create and use the latest version - but keep all the previous versions in reserve just in case.

Thanks, you did good. I now accept that Auslogics really defragged the file and did not simply excluded it because it was protected and part of your AVG anti-virus. A most unworthy thought occurs to me about utilities that modify anti-virus files " Auslogics rushes in where Angels (Defraggler) fears to tread " Regards Alan

Sorry, but that proves nothing as yet. Have you followed up on what remains of incavi.avm by running Defraggler after Auslogics. After a long career developing software I have no trust in computers, and in retirement I now amuse myself by testing applications and finding their bugs. I suggest that after Auslogics has shown you that there are no fragments in incavi.avm, you then launch Defraggler and simply click the SEARCH Tab, and then check the boxes "Include non-fragmented files" and "Filename contains", and enter the name incavi.avm and then click the search button. If this finds incavi.avm and reports 1 fragment, and if the file is still 130,145 MB or larger, then Auslogics has done what you believe. Regards Alan

This is the second topic in as many months in which a Microsoft Help Desk person has been aware of the presence of CCleaner, and as a result has automatically blamed Microsoft Windows issues upon CCleaner. To be fair - they probably put the same blame upon any other registry cleaning utility.

Windows 8 introduces a host of issues, including the fact that you MUST have UAC enabled for applications to work properly, e.g. Windows Explorer can still select Macrium Reflect backup files, but the right click context menu can no longer allow you to mount/explore. I guess the same applies to 8.1

Take and attach to next reply a screen shot showing all the details the Disk Management can display of all your drives. Pictures are better than words, and give a better and easier understanding of the situation.

A much safer and easier solution is to make a Macrium Reflect Partition image backup, and to use options available for shrink to a smaller size when restoring that image. These options have existed for a long time in the purchased version and may by now be available in the Free Version.

It might be ridiculous but it is not difficult to do, and until the option is added it is for now the way to go for those such as yourself who "really hope for the option"

I gave you a solution to what I perceived as your real need, I had not realised you were simply inventing scenarios for which the feature had potential relevance. I agree, it probably would not be hard to do, but just because something can be done is no reason for it to be done.

Originally there was also a free version of Easeus Todo, but then they only offered this for a price. Recently a free version is back :- http://www.majorgeek...ee_edition.html There are of course many nice extras if you pay, but what you get for free is more than adequate :- http://www.todo-back.../comparison.htm On that comparison page, ALAN is quoted as endorsing their product with :- "I know just enough to get in trouble and your backup software is the best in the market." Please note that I AM NOT THE ALAN Though I must admit that I am happy that when I do get into trouble, Macrium Reflect saves my bacon

I can remember that around CCleaner version 2.*.* one user complained that he had lost all his music/video files. His problem stemmed from the fact that he added "C:\Windows Old" and all its contents via Options/Include for secure wiping, and because the multiple (I think I counted 47 of them) reparse points in "C:\Windows Old\..." were designating the latest Windows libraries, CCleaner followed the reparse points and zapped the libraries. I have no wish for anyone to lose their libraries due to this new default cleaning option, but I do hope that CCleaner continues to follow the reparse points to applications I installed on non-system drives.

Infinitely easier is to simply click on the column header "Install Date" By default they are displayed in date order, simply click and it becomes reversed and the most recent appears at the top of the list. This not only shows if a recent installation has occurred, but what the potentially rogue application was. I suggest this is easier because you do not need to compare the current quantity of applications with records of quantities for this specific computer; You only need to know that no authorised installations were performed in this department since the last time you visited.

Why not copy the file, which hopefully will appear anywhere other than at "end of disk", and then delete the original file and rename the file copy with the original name.

"Here Today Gone Tomorrow" is another alternative to avoid ambiguity

Yes, that is correct.

Welcome to the forum. With luck no harm is done to the registry if it is cleaned and the backup is IMMEDIATELY restored. Windows has been so unlucky for me in the past that I would NEVER depend upon a successful registry backup restoration. I suggest that you should now determine whether it is the registry cleaning or the file cleaning which causes the problem.

Do you mean that it chews and consumes, and reduces the amount of Free Space, or that it slowly progresses through every sector block in strict sequence from beginning to end ?

Because after a long career as hardware and software designer / programmer, my impressions may be worth posting against the enthusiastic endorsement of an unsupported utility by a non-programmer When I searched in several forums before posting I found nothing to explain how ForceTrim worked, and the only potential download was from MediaFire. :o I was troubled by reports that OCZ created the tool and had a topic but it had been abandoned. Today I actually logged into OCZ and can report that :- Download it from MediaFire if you wish, but bear in mind that OCZ have effectively disowned it.

What is the D:\ file system ? NTFS or FAT32 ? A humble USER account CAN run *.bat scripts or Portable CCleaner.exe that are on a non-system FAT32 partition, but CANNOT do the same on a non-system NTFS partition until I step in on my Administrator account and use CACLS to grant access to the relevant folder for all Users. I would like to think Windows 7 security capabilities would apply equally to both NTFS and FAT32, BUT I really doubt it, and perhaps UAC protection might be a little Iffy when FAT32 is involved.

Almost the worst possible thing to do is upgrade Memory along with a new HDD. You do not NEED more RAM. When I added an extra 4 GB of RAM to the existing 4 GB ( 2 new chips added to the existing pair ) it failed to boot. Removed the new chips and it booted. Added one chip and it booted. Several combinations of any 3 chips gave me 6 GB and boot-ability. Last desperate attempt and all 4 chips were each in the only socket that gave me 8 GB that would boot. For me the optimum procedure is to use Macrium Reflect (or alternatives that I have no real experience of), and use it to save Partition image backups to an external device, and use it to create a WinPE Boot Recovery CD that will restore its backups to any HDD ( including the new empty HDD which has no Windows ). Please note that I have 6 different USB2 Flash drives from different suppliers and different makes, Most of them read back at between 15 and 25 MB/s. All of the are restricted to writing at about 25% of the Read speed ( the fastest writes at 7.24 MB/Sec, the slowest writes at 3.36 MB/Sec ) My partition C:\ size is 55 GB, of which Used Space is only 11 GB, and a backup is about 6.5 GB, which would probably take 2000 Seconds if I were to save it to a USB2 Flash Drive. 2000 Seconds is nothing compared to using Windows Installation Disks and installing all the patches, but once you start using image backups in anticipation of future disasters you will appreciate using an external USB2 HDD at 20+ MB/Sec (an USB3 HDD is even better.) After you have a fully functional system you will then be in a better position to know what to UNDO if extra RAM goes wrong for you, and you can focus on making sure that you have not damaged the RAM socket contacts and can try shuffling your chips around.