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Hi Duane, and welcome to the forum. The file system is being recognized by Windows as RAW, and because of that you could carry out a "Quick Format", which would initialise the file system and enable Recuva to carry out a scan. A "Quick Format" would not delete any files, and because the issue is a faulty file system and not accidentally deleted files (I'm guessing you haven't deleted them), then you would need to select "Scan for non-deleted files" in "Options\Actions". In fact you could check all boxes except the "hidden system directories" one. But, before you do that, try scanning the drive with either or both of the following free recovery programs which will scan a raw file system ... Lazesoft Windows Data Recovery: With this program, you could also try scanning for a lost partition if the data recovery didn't yield the results you want. This program will scan and possibly restore the usual single partition on a flash drive if it's simply the boot sectors which are damaged, although that's an option to be left until after you've tried scanning the drive as it is now. Also try PhotoRec and TestDisk: (Both in the same download) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Although they look like command line, they're not, They have a structured dialogue to follow. And finally, with your drive being only 8gb, you could first try making an "Image" of it with "USB Image Tool", which would enable you to have it backed up before you try any repair or formatting operations. http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/download/ If things didn't work out with one option, the Image could then be restored to the drive which will enable you to try another. Hope that helps.

Which Operating System are you on RT? I ask because every time I've tested the WFS feature on my XP system the large temp file or files have been deleted. And that includes every time I've deliberately interrupted the process. I'm wondering why some folk are having it left behind, especially as you say it finished wiping? You're having a loss of 1GB of disk space every day and you're not running WFS every day?

Sunnier climes ahead me hopes ... In fact this is the hopeful time of the year ... Hope the snow stays away, hope Spring is nice this year, and here's hoping we have a nice Summer. Ah yes, almost forgot the most important one, hope those 6 numbers come up and the other three don't matter any more.

Hi brambo. Yes, if you check the box highlighted in this screeny it will clear that dropdown menu ... That's what I assume you mean from your post, but I could be misreading it. You could mean the Recent Documents shortcuts which is the item above the one in the screenshot. EDIT: http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-rules/windows-tab/windows-explorer-files

Wow, you're on the ball Tas. I don't think March 1st had actually reached me when you posted this. Pinned.

Thanks for that big man, I sadly missed that one. My bad, but maybe some others missed it.

This is hilarious, especially the police car arriving at the exact wrong time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5ZnPiI6yM I wish someone could translate the video makers running commentary. It sounds a hoot.

I just recently began seeing error messages in the place of a blocked ad, as depicted here in Yahoo mail ... Quickly traced it to my Hosts File with a list of entries carrying 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1. All I can think of the reason for this is maybe a recent update to the Hosts file, as I simply can't think of anything else which would change the "127.0.0.1" to "0.0.0.0". I do know that I had no 0.0.0.0 entries the last time I edited that file. Used "Hostman's "Edit\Replace IP" menu to bulk change the long list of 0.0.0.0 entries to 127.0.0.1 ... ... and the blocked address error no longer shows. This is all for info really in case anyone else running a Hosts file suddenly starts seeing blocked ADdress errors. ADdress ... get it?

Made my day with that one.

I think you're looking at it wrong hazel. 2 versions of "QTcore4.dll": Both 2.04mb 2 versions of "QTGui4.dll": Both 7.6mb The file and it's duplicate are listed together in each of the two sections.

Just out of curiosity, I've ran that on my system drive for the first time with the default settings, and it found two instances of duplicate files, and both were legitimate and needed. I have no interest in deviating from the default settings by the way, and I probably won't ever run it again. And for those curious folk who may not sleep without knowing ... One set for the program itself and the other in a folder used to create a WinPE recovery disk. If the feature is there, people will use it, but you simply must check every individual instance to ascertain as to whether the duplicate files found (if any) are actually required. This type of utility is only as safe as the guy with his finger on the trigger.

The best I can give you chris is to read through this topic as there is a lot of advice from Mac users who have had, and subsequently cured, the disk space problem. As I outlined in post #11 ... I'm wondering if the CCleaner devs are working on this one, and some input in that direction would be appreciated I think.

A great idea mta, although I can see lots of folk wearing their drives out with "I'll just have one more attempt" to get the files exactly as they want them.

I don't have a Mac or iPhone, but I know someone who does, so thanks for the heads up. I'll pass that on in case they are unaware.

Cool pic.

With all due respect Soulmte, you shouldn't ever be running something of which you have no understanding. There's nothing wrong at all with being unaware of what something is or does on your computer, but to bash ahead and ask questions afterwards is a sure road to disaster. I think I've said this before on here, but far better to ask "what does this do" rather than "how do I fix this"? There are guides here for all Piriform software, but I've linked you to the one relevant to the "Wipe Free Space", which will give you a full understanding of what the feature is and does ... http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/wiping-free-disk-space Use this feature only occasionally, and unless you're selling your computer, you need never run it at all. Hope that helps.

Just imagine how excited your users are at the prospect of getting this extra value for free!

Well, it certainly does give iTunes and QuickTime a much smaller footprint, but I'm wondering about the many different variations a cleaning routine like this would have to have. There would have to be a different routine for every language as we both know that the chosen language ".lproj" files have to remain whilst all others are cleaned out. I'm not a Piriform coder, but I think that problem could be nigh on impossible to get around, and I think even the community produced "winapp2.ini" file writers would have a problem getting around it. Take out the wrong files and iTunes is crippled. Just my opinion of course, and you may get other input. EDIT: I forgot about Nergals post No.4 above. winapp2.ini may be a possibility.

I'm pleased you contributed that experience Alan, and I was also tempted to experiment. I thought to use the utility I backed up the MBR with to restore it. http://www.trojanhunter.com/products/mbr-backup/ I'm pretty sure that would have worked because that utility has a "View Partition Table" option which shows exactly what partition info is stored in the backup, and all three partitions were indeed properly recorded. As it turned out I went with the sure-fix of the Macrium Image. All the same it's valuable to know that MiniTools would have fixed it.

You're amongst friends. Most of us are usually fiddling with something. A new Linux distro, new software, re-wiring this or tuning up that. And usually we end up getting bit on the bum as you did with your duplicate files excursion. Thankfully, amongst the bunch of us we can usually help each other out of any situation but the biggest help is an "Image Backup" and quite a lot of us use "Macrium". Reliable and rock solid. Macrium Reflect (Home Version): If you can't help fiddling, and you haven't already, get yourself an Image backup. Some previous topics on Macrium and "Imaging": EDIT: Welcome to the forum by the way Lyngypsy.

Very clever. "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWrLhgiX74 Originally written by Ed Cobb and recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. Covered by Soft Cell in 1981. ... - --- .-.. . -. / ..-. .-. --- -- / .-- .. -.- .. .--. . -.. .. .-

I have no idea. If I'd been messing around with partitions or dual booting I could find some possible reason. The nearest I can get is maybe relating the problem to messing about with Linux distros on a flash drive. That day I was updating Peppermint 4 installed onto a flash drive with an included 1gb "persistence" file built in, and three quarters way through the quite big update I got this ... No possible way Peppermint should be writing to my hard drive, and there may be no connection at all, but who knows what can happen if a software corrupts. It will forever remain a mystery and I've no worries about that as it was soon fixed. Mind you I'm puzzled as to why I still couldn't boot after restoring the partitions with MiniTools, because after booting again with the rescue CD, Minitools showed that the three partitions were indeed restored. I do have backups of all my drives bootsectors, but Macrium was a safe bet to restore the Master Boot Record with the correct partition information, so that's the way I went.

I don't get up as early as hazel. Missed the Downhill. Should get it on the iPlayer later as the highlights aren't worth watching.

A few days ago I booted my computer up to find a black screen and a flashing command line cursor (which was inactive but flashing). Thank heavens I have the knowledge I gained over the years on this forum and the software to go with it. Booted with a "Minitools Partition Wizard Resue CD" to get the lay of the land, and instead of a system partition and two data partitions, I found two odd sized partitions of unallocated space. A raw drive in other words. What caused it I have no idea as all seemed well when I shut down the night before. Anyways, did a search for lost partitions while I had the Minitools disk in, and it found and restored the original 3 partitions within about 15 seconds. All seemed fine but the computer still booted to the flashing cursor. Rather than spend any more time fixing the booting issue, I decided to restore a Macrium Image of the system partition, which contained the original Master Boot Record which would contain all the relevant partition information needed for the other partitions. Another success story for Macrium.

I wonder if you remember this Andavari ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=23721&hl=itunes&fromsearch=1 Stripping all those language files out did nothing to iTunes functionality, but that was back in 2009, and when I tried it some time later with a later version of iTunes, it did cause the program to fail, and I have a faint recollection of hazel trying it with Vista and iTunes not working afterwards. @ Jean-Noël JOLLY As Andavari says, you would have to strip those files out of a current version of iTunes yourself and see what the result would be. But, after saying that, and going by my previous experience, iTunes can change from version to version, and what may work OK in one iteration, may completely cripple the next. EDIT: Welcome to the forum by the way Jean- Noël.