I stupidly decided to move my pictures that were on my computer, to a card reader with an SD card, because my CD rom is broken and has to be replaced. I moved about 420 files that were in several folders. They all appeared to be transfering just fine, but when I was almost done, I attempted to create a few new folders to organize them, and all the folder and file names that were listed in that card, seemed to turn to unrecognizable figures and characters. A friend told me about Recuva, so I came here, read up on what I think I was supposed to be doing to retrieve them. I went to the Advanced options tab, then Options, then checked the box that said to look for undeleted files from damaged or reformatted discs. I also had the correct drive chosen, and the scan completed in a matter of seconds, finding nothing. Then I went back and checked the box to do a deep scan, which brought up about 420 files, all but 44 were listed as excellent for recovering. I believe that when I pushed the recover button, I only checked the ones that were listed as recoverable. Also since my CD rom is broke, I recovered it back to the drive, which is where I had moved them from, just not to the same folder, so it would't cause confusion, if I end up having to scan that drive. I have now scanned the SD card about 3 times, changing boxes that are checked, because I thought I did something wrong, all in the advanced mode, as I understood I was supposed to. I am not clear, however, exactly which boxes should be checked and not checked, and if I have ruined my chances of recovery since I have already scanned it 3 times...I suppose I am missing something somewhere, didn't read a page here that I was supposed to, but I thought I had read it all....could someone help me, if it is still possible to retrieve my pictures....? I should have copied to that card, instead of totally moving them. You know what they say about hindsight...Also, would it be worth trying to scan the drive or folder that I moved them from? Or will they not show up, since they were actually moved....?? Please help me...I am desperately needing these pictures. Thanks... romawithissues
