[How can this happen??]

I accidentally deleted a large number of files, but made no other changes of any kind to the drive.

Ran Recuva and it identified all the files that I deleted.

BUT, a few of them were marked as "unrecoverable".   

And the files that were marked as such were files that were already on the drive (and had been for a long time). 

 

How is this possible???

[Recovering "flakey" drive]

Have a 500 MB drive that has physical problems.   Computer will recognize it intermittently, then not.   

I've been able to get a full "deep scan" done, and even "mark" all files for recovery.  Then the computer "looses" the drive.

I can get the drive to reconnect by disconnecting the power and maybe even give it a slight "rap" on the desk surface.

Then hit the recover button.

I have yet to see if this scenario will REALLY work.  What would be nice is to save the results of the deep scan in such a way that Recuva could be restarted to (using a saved search results file)  complete the actual file recovery phase.

I haven't checked, but is this something that might be do-able with the paid version; or possibly even with the free version.

Recuva is a fantastic product.  I figure the only one of it's kind out there and  the only one that will recovery many files when the  directory structure is completely trashed.