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I'm not sure what you mean by "automatically deleted" I guess your changes of recovery depends a lot on just what exactly the phone has done to the memory card. To start with you will need an SD-Card reader to connect via the USB so it can be accessed like a flash drive. Install and run Recuva and see if standard file scan will find your files, if not then use the "Deep Scan" method. If you encounter the following: "cannot read boot sector" "file format unknown" then you have a damaged partition table unfortunately Recuva is rather weak in dealing with this situations like this. I only know 2 programs which can access drive data with a damaged file system unfortunately both are shareware / crippleware (you can preview but not save) but it will give you a good idea if any files are recoverable from your memory card: - Flash Memory Toolkit 1.20 - Diskinternals Partition Recovery 2.9 Richard S.

You probably need ffmpeg this can transcode wmv files into another formats however being a console tool it might be a little tricky to use. There are several front-end interfaces for ffmpeg one I would recommend to use is WinFF - http://winff.org Richard S.

I bet only 5% are actually worth using Richard S.

AGP port speed still shows up incorrectly as 256x not 4x as my motherboard supports (bug already submitted to forum) Also I have 1280MB of RAM, summary rounds this off incorrectly as 1.3GB (what's wrong with 1.25 ??). Richard S.

There's no need to incorporate Recuva into BartPE just store the files on a flash drive, boot BartPE with the Flash drive already inserted and it should be ready to access. Richard S.

Microsoft has a fix - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8469632.stm I bet that's put a sock in the whole Internet Explorer is better and more secure than Firefox argument Richard S.

It impossible to have a 100% defragged file system because when you start using your computer i.e. web browsing, copying or deleting files it becomes fragmented again. Richard S.

Is there going to be an update soon for Speccy, if so when will that be likely?? Richard S.

The only time I've seen Defraggler show no hard drives if you run in Windows 95/98 compatibility mode although in your case I suspect it's something else. It could be a registry problem it's hard to tell however if you have System Restore enabled I would suggest you try rolling back to a date before your virus infection and see if that helps. If you still have no joy the run "Defraggler /debug" and post the debug results here. Richard S.

Does the hard drive sound like it's spinning?? Do you hear clicking noises?? Is it heating up quickly?? I assume this is because you're using an IDE to USB adapter the drive letter is assigned but no size given I guess that's because either the drive isn't communicating or the partition table is damaged. Does "Disk Management" display any useful information about G: ?? If the partition is damaged Recuva will not inspect the drive, you could try crippleware Diskinternals Partition Recovery and see if this program will have any luck inspecting the hard drive but I suspect it won't. Richard S.

Thank God my parents doesn't use Facebook lol - (p.s. this video is a spoof) Richard S.

I want to know why pagefile.sys is deliberately blocked with Defraggler even on a live boot i.e. BartPE when this file isn't exclusively locked?? If you patch the unicode string "pagefile.sys" out of the exe file it's more than happen to defrag it. Richard S.

Run "Defragger.exe /debug" and post the debugging log. Richard S.

I suspect you cannot defrag a network drive because Defraggler would require direct access to the hard drive which I doubt is possible. The other alternative is to use a console defragging tool such as Sysinternals Contig, and run this remotely using Sysinternals Psexec - http://sysinternals.com/ Richard S.

Not certain myself I've seen loads like this on my laptop I think they maybe deleted filename with non-standard characters or something. Richard S.

These are not genuine files Recuva probably made the assumption because of the way data appears on the flash drive. I'm surprised about the freezing problem it quite possible the device is having communication problems at USB 2.0 speed. If that's the case then you may have to format your flash drive in another PC or force USB 1.1 mode by temporally disabling the "Enhanced" USB controller in Device Manager. There's a tool called "Flash Memory Tool Kit" designed for flash drives which you could download and try out Perform an "Error Scan" read test this shows the device performance with your USB port, a poor speed or device reset would confirm you have problems. Richard S.

The red blocks are kind of helpful but unless you can put files to them then all you have is red blocks. If they're not listed with "View files" then they probably belong to the System Restore function of Windows which you normally cannot touch or view without some Administration tweaking. To be honest don't pay too much attention to the graph what is more important are the files it lists as fragmented and deciding whether they're worth defragging or not. Richard S.

If you hit the "View files" button it will show you which files are defragged and which files are not simply going by the number of red dots isn't very helpful. Richard S.

Is CCleaner designed to run on Bootable Live Windows CD?? I suspect that it will only process the host OS and not the target OS which isn't running. Richard S.

Problem Event Name: BEX sounds like you have an DEP error or buffer overrun which is not good. What CPU / OS / Service Pack /Security Apps do you have installed on your machine?? If you have a few hours to spare I would run "chkdsk c: /f /r" and reboot Windows this checks for file inconsistencies and fixes them it may help to prevent Defraggler from crashing. Richard S.

Windows 98SE comes with it's own built-in defragging tool just remember to close down as many applications as possible defrag has a habit of restarting during a disk write. Alternatively if your machine has at least 128MB of ram it should be possible to run BartPE (a bootable XP CD) which fully supports Defraggler. Richard S.

Windows doesn't deliberately go out of it's way to create restore points with fragmented files that's the consequence of storing large files in one go they naturally fill in the gaps. There's very little benefit from defragging "C:\Voume System Information\" Windows hardly touches it unless you do a System Restore, however defragging system files and program files would help improve performance. Richard S.

You could Diskinternals Uneraser unfortunately it's crippleware so you have to paid to extract files however the trial would give you an idea if they support UFS. I use their freeware Diskinternals Linux Reader which works well so they do seem to specialise in non-Windows file systems. Richard S.

I had a problem with my M2 memory card last night I was testing my new 4-1 card reader from Pound Land and it messed it up during a read bench test. Now I wasn't expect much for a Pound but I was shocked at just how fast it trashed my card so if you're considering buy one I would avoid them like the plague. Fortunately I didn't have anything important I had already upgraded my M2 card for my phone with the same files included. Since I was unable to open files via my other M2 card reader (Sony) I decided to put Recuva to the test and see if I could recover anything. Well I tried and it failed instantly even in deep scan mode: "Unable to read boot sector" Now I thought Recuva was this amazing program that could recover files even hard drives that have been formatted so why would a boot sector error be such a big deal?? I decided to investigate just how bad the damage was and using a program called WinHex I was able to view the entire drive. Interestingly the root directory structure was intact I could see the file names perfectly including the ones I had previously deleted. So it seems to me that if Recuva ignores the boot sector error it should be able to recover my files right?? or perhaps that's asking for too much. To further my tests I formatted my M2 card using quick format, Recuva will now perform deep scan but claims to have found nothing. I suppose in all fairness other similar recovery tools including WinHex seemed unwilling to recover files too the only program that I’ve had success with was "Flash Memory Toolkit" even after using quick format. I guess this begs the question, will Recuva support flash drives with damaged boot sectors?? or ask user what type of file system existed on the damaged drive?? Also blindly searching for fragments the match file headers rather than simple looking for file entries (the same as Flash Memory Toolkit) would be another useful feature. Richard S.

There are lots of places where Windows tends to store files you may not need and fill up you hard drive. - Clear Internet Explorer's "Temporary Internet Files" - Turn Off System Restore, Turn On System Restore (do this only of your machine is running okay and no need to roll back) - open "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp" and bin all the files (one or two files maybe locked which is normal) alternatively you could run CCleaner Richard S.