Andavari, I think, as soon as you reply to a topic, it does not show up in the list of unanswered questions; so nobody is going to know to come here..... I just don't like the way recuva works: it gave me the option of creating a disk image -- but where it must recover from is the disk itself anyway. Also, if the image already exists and you click "create image" it will just create a new one. I finally let it scan the disk itself. For all types of files. Weird thing is: I used advanced options -- and chose not to "show undeleted files" -- it still came up with over 1 TB of data on a 320 GB hard drive! It is in the process of restoring now. I simply deselected some of them (restoring them to an external HD). And the other thing about it is that it showed me 128 files with too long filenames -- but the only cholce I have there is to abort the entire recovery or not to recover the ones with the too long names. What about the option of shortening the name?
I am not certain what Recuva does: both photorec and disk-drill offer the option of scanning the empty space (that is, not for overwritten files, I guess?) --- but recuva scans EVERYTHING (which is good) and shows extant files (what for)?
Some helpful volunteers have created walk-throughs for photorec and disk-drill, along with step-by-step pictures and what each stage means -- the piriform instructions are more sparse.
Finally I am simply recovering both with disk-drill and with photorec- - hopefully that will give me everything I need. If it does not, I don't care anyway.
Feeling tired,
Helene
PS -- no need to reply. I will send part of these questions to recuva support.