Terry_Teaches

Thanks for your reply. We're thinking along the same lines. My second computer is a laptop, so the cable option would entail borrowing a desktop system. I tried making a BartPE disk and adding recuva to the build, but ran into problems (wouldn't boot). Now I am trying a product called "Active Partition." So far, it has booted and is scanning for files. My fingers are crossed. -Terry

I have a laptop that accidentally had it's hard drive reformatted. I think I need a bootable version of recuva, on a thumb drive or CD. I was thinking thumb drive, because if recuva works, I could store found files on the thumb drive. If I made a recuva CD I don't know how I would store the found files. Does anyone know how to make a bootable thumb drive or CD and then put Recuva on it? I have one other computer available for burning the CD or making the Recuva thumb drive. Any suggestions are welcome.