Thanks, both Augeas and Sune
What does a drive/partition mean? - that scares me!
If I did download onto my desktop (where the files are 'missing")
where would I save and execute it from?
or should I just download to my external hard drive and execute it from there? will that work?
(you said flash drive, is that the same as an external hard drive?)
If I did do this, how would the Recuva system know what my computer system is? (ie. vista 32 bit or 64 bit)
What is THE simplest thing for me to do?
Again, thanks for your help.
carmen