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Update I've now got extra memory in my XP machine and will try again with recuva and Pandora. In the meanwhile I ended up buying the getdata product and it recovered plenty of files and my friend is happy (he did have to go thru a lot of images to determine which were his). I did recover files with Pandora as the file list was displayed as it went along and when it crashed the file list part (thread?) was still working. I am now after one particular file so hence my re-test with recuva. I also see that O&O have a product, so I might try that.

Some minor updates 1) tried with the new version on got the same error at the same % under XP 2) tried under Vista with the new version and simply have a message on the bottom of the window saying "bad allocation"

If Windows System Restore doesnt do the job and you have no other complete backup, then you can go down the file recovery path Read the Recuva online documentation first. Here are some quick tips 1) Ideally you need to connect the hard drive that has the files on it to a different (Other) computer. You might have to know the partition also, if there are multiple partitions on the hard drive 2) download/install recuva onto the other computer (C drive probably). 3) Then run recuva and select your original hard drive which might be E or F drive. 4) Select the files to restore - Make sure you restore the files to the other computer, not your original hard drive 5) burn a CD/DVD or copy to a USB/thumb drive, the desired files from other computer 6) once you are sure you have all the files extracted, re-install original hard drive in original computer 7) copy over files to the original computer (once you have re-created admin userid) - this assumes you can re-add the admin account

Pandora recovery

Ironically, I also tried the Pandora Recovery program and it also crashed after a while also.

Try opening with Wordpad and you may be abel to save the raw text.

Well here is a zip file with various files. contains screens shots and the dump file(s) in case its useful to anyone. Recuva_crash.zip thanks for reading. Recuva_crash.zip

I'm taking screen-shots as it progresses and suddenly the C drive is now showing up, whereas it started on the F drive. Is that a bug or did I need to somehow only select the F drive?

Confirmed that when I press CANCEL, it goes back to menu and doesnt show you the files found so far. Re-running again with debug enabled.

Oh yeah, and what happens if I cancel the deep-scan when it is part way thru> will it show me the file so-far it will go back to the main menu? Should I cancel it when it hits a certain number of files? i.e. is there a theoretical maximum number of files it can handle or is it limited by memory?

Ran deep scan on re-formatted drive and it was finding a lot of files. Last time I looked it was upto 496882 files. came back after another 20minutes and it crashed. dont have the crash message but it was something like "I'm sorry Recuva has a problem" Then I got a Dr Watson crash message. Here are some Process Explorer screen shots. I'm running on XP with 2Gig of memory, perhaps I need some more memory. Paging file set to 3072MB