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skaybaltimore

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  1. Well...anyone who's ever lost important files knows all too well that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach once it hits you that they're really really really gone. In my case, it wasn't just the actual files themselves. But rather, the fact that the folders served as sort of an index for hundreds of new artists that I'd just started to listen to. Once it sunk in that they were actually gone, and not in the recycle bin, or somewhere else on my hard drive, the thought of rebuilding that kind of index from scratch was unsettling, to say the least. Then after I saw what a great job Recuva did getting back the bulk of the files/folders, along with seeing how helpful this thread had been to me in getting the program to do what it does best, I couldn't help but post, in the hope that it might help someone else down the road avoid that most excrutiating feeling of "there one moment...gone the next". Two things really stand out: 1. Install Recuva on your system and have it there in case you need it at some point down the road. 2. DON'T DO ANYTHING ON THE DRIVE (like adding new stuff, etc) BEFORE RUNNING RECUVA. I know this was an older thread...but hey...sometimes certain things -- like user error and great freeware programs that help compensate for user error -- are just timeless. Cheers!
  2. I just wanted to thank the OP for his most helpful post. I accidentally deleted 586 mp3's (from 347 different sub-folders) this afternoon, thinking I was simply removing the files from a playlist when in fact I was (unwittingly) deleting them from my hard drive. I usually make backups, but this one particular song folder changes so often, backing it up seemed somewhat impractical to me -- at least until I saw that I'd lost songs it had taken me a month to collect. It had been so long since I'd lost any data, at first I never even thought about using Recuva, even though I had it on an old laptop. So I started to put more songs onto the drive from which all the other songs had just been deleted (fortunately, only 4 songs). Then I stopped and remembered about Recuva, and the possibility of maybe salvaging some of the songs. I got the latest version and did a deep scan on the 2 TB internal HD. It took 6 hours, and when it was finished, I followed the directions from this post, and was able to recover 549 out of the original 586 songs. I recovered the songs, in their proper folders, to another partition, checked to make sure everything was correct and that the files played properly, then I copied them back to the original drive. All in all, I consider the results to have been a HUGE plus, especially compared to the prospect of losing all 586 songs. And, if I hadn't added the 4 songs to that drive before running Recuva, I probably could have recovered/restored even more. But it goes without saying...I'm a LOT happier now than I was this afternoon. And to celebrate, I made sure the backed up files were totally synced with the originals, and I will continue to keep the backup folder current, so if something ever happens again, I'll have a full backup already in place. Using Recuva to restore accidentally deleted files is great, but nothing beats a routinely updated backup folder. I considered this to have been a warning. And I don't need to learn this lesson twice.
  3. Then I gotta give it a try. Definitely. Thanks. I'll repost after I run it. (And just as an aside...Puran Defrag supposedly allows for other drives to be boot-time defragged, but during the process I keep getting error messages. But only on the other drives, not on the "C" drive; it does that the way it's supposed to. I'll see if Perfect Disk Pro Trial Version works on non-C drives.) UPDATE: Perfect Disk Pro v 11 was able to defragment the $MFT without having to do a boot time defrag. Now...no more red block. Interesting.
  4. Thanks. I use Puran Defrag (freeware) as well (which does boot time defrags) but the boot time defrag only works on my "C" drive. The fragmented $MFT is on a non-C drive drive.
  5. Thanks. I love Defraggler, despite the fact that my OCD self just HATES having to look at that ONE RED BLOCK that won't defrag -- the dreaded $MFT file. (Oh well...like I said...I really love Defraggler. I love the fact that you can click on the blocks to see what is in each one. I love being able to just defrag files or folders instead of entire drives. I love the option to do a quick defrag. In truth, this program is everything the defrag utility that comes with XP Pro OUGHT to be.)
  6. Thanks. I had the same problem, and your solution worked like a charm. I joined this forum just to say "thanks".
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