jordanzero

Well it finally finished a little bit ago, it said it only found 132.. none of which where what i was looking for. it said it ignored 29,500 files. and it took 251,130.32 seconds i dont know what to do anymore, i really need those pictures back, but i need to start using this drive. otherwise im going to run out of room on my primary. but thanks to everyone that has tryed to help me out. i really do appreciate it.

Well i ran it again, it did the same thing, but a little bit ago, almost 12 hours into the scan, Recuva went to 98% but it stopped after that. it might actually finish but i dont know.

for some reason, my windows vista Ultimate cant boot into safe mode? its really gay, its probably Dell's fault. i have norton 360, so hopefully it wont defrag or something. I will keep trying, but again, thanks for the suggestions though. i appreciate any help.

I like all your suggestions, i will try those. first off I have a Dell Studio 1737 with Intel Core 2 duo 2.13Ghz. 4GB Ram. so i have quite a bit of resources. I have recuva and windows installed on my 250GB Main hard drive. The photos i need to recover are on my secondary 160GB hard drive with nothing that has been installed since the format. My files were saved to F:/pictures pretty much. i Will try safe mode and offline here in a little while. again, thank you very much. i really appreciate your help.

I have been trying to recover a lot of deleted pictures i have deleted by accident. I have recuva version 1.29.429. it is scanning for .jpg and .jpeg since last last it stopped at 96% and it says its taking longer and longer as time goes by, first it said 2 minutes, then , and 10, and now 20 minutes. it says it has found over 30,000 files which is a little over what i thought i needed, but im pretty sure it found them, i really need these photos. And this program seems to be the only one that is working. but i dont know whats wrong with it. any suggestions?