Sillyme

Sorry I did not make it clear. The missing files on the original drive have been overwritten (deleted) by Recuva. One of the settings in Recuva asks you to select which method you wish to use to overwrite (delete) the original files on the original drive. It doesn?t appear to give you an option not to overwrite (delete). I guess I just skipped past this setting as I thought I understood that Recuva was a non destructive means of recovering damaged or deleted files. I guess the files I was trying to recover from the original drive were damaged as I had not deleted them. They had simply disappeared from the sub directory they were in. I was copying a bunch of large MPG?s from one computer to be used with another. I copied these into this sub directory which also had other sub directories within it. All the files which I had copied into this sub directory along with the other sub directories had just disappeared. Before I disconnected the USB dive from the original XP, I verified all the files and sub directories were in tack. I then shut down the computer and disconnected the drive. When I plugged the drive into the other computer, all the files within the subdirectory were missing. So I ran Recuva and it found the missing files and indicated that they had not be deleted or overwritten. After Recuva recovered whatever files it would, I tried getting it to recover all the same files again to another USB drive. It was then that I discovered that one of the features of Recuva was that it overwrites (deletes) the recovered files from the original drive. Is there any way to avoid this overwriting (deleting) from happening?

Hello, I am new to this forum. I have just recently started using Recuva. It appears to default to deleting all files it recovers from a hard drive. I am trying to recover undeleted files from a Maxtor USB Hard Drive. I used Recuva to recover these undeleted files from one Maxtor USB hard drive to another. The files disappeared from a sub directory after coping them from one XP to be used on another. Recuva naturally found the files and was apparently able to recover most of them. So I retired to recovered the files to a 2nd directory. It said it was not able to recover the files it had recovered previously. It was then that I discovered that Recuva automatically deletes the files it recovers. I am recovering these files to another hard drive. Is there any way to prevent Recuva from deleting the files it recovers?