_ivor_

Thank you very much for the reply. you may well have saved a goats life. I think the mistake i made was "select all". so not only overwritten files but everything was selected. Also the ones with little red dots in front of them. Over the last week i've been through the tedious job of deep-scanning the drive again and again looking for different types of files at a time, and after it finished scanning (usually 1hour) i selected only the files i recognised and wanted to retain AND with little green dots in front of them. This way i've been able to recover pretty much by now, but i fear the moment i start writing stuff on the disc i'll rember a file or a photo which i'm still missing. Oh well... i'll make do. The initial message in this thread was written because i hoped recovering would be a little bit easier. i know, i should be happy with what i have back now but after clicking format and seeing the progress bar flash over my screen (which took about 3 seconds) it's a bit frustrating to have to spend every spare minute to recovering all this stuff over the last week. Now i'll quit complaining before i start to sound like the poor old goat myself. Once again, thank you for taken efford and i hope for a speedy recovery (!) of both fingers and braincells. Kind Regards, ivor

Nothing? It is fitting, for a program that gave me exactly the same... but someone could have at least pleaded for the goats life... i mean, the poor thing...

Hello people, i reinstalled windows and in doing so accidentically formatted the wrong disc. I have an SSD and a HDD in my pc and silly me, i formatted the HDD (500GB). I knew what i did as soon as i clicked "format" in the windows installer. I swore, i cursed, i earned a resenting look from my dog. then i formatted the SSD as well and installed windows (10) on it. Downloaded Chrome, went to filehippo and got Recuva downloaded & installed. I let it scan deep on the whole of the 500GB HDD. it found 150k files in about 45 minutes of deep and intense scanning, and asked me would i per chance like to recover some of them. i checked the "select em all" box and set it to work thank you very much. The recover process took about 15 minutes and after it finished (the last second took awfully long... think i have been staring at that -1-sec-left- for about 5 minutes) it told me the awesome news of it being finished and having succesfully recovered 0 files. What am i doing wrong? Am i asking too much of it? should i offer it tea? or sacrafice a young feminine goat? Help, Advice, suggestions or just some uplifting words are greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, ivor