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  1. Thank you for that, I think we're getting somewhere, as this is what I see ... ... which activates the download dialogue box after a few seconds pause. One button, no choices. What do others see? Edit: I'm thinking this could be a location thing. Country specific software/download agreements maybe.
  2. Damn, you ninja'd me again mta, but I spotted your post this time. I was thinking along the same lines. 150gb is big as mine is only 350mb. I'm wondering if there may be some program which isn't cleaning up after itself, such as video/audio converting software using that location for it's temporary converting process and associated data, and then leaving it behind. I've had software like that and a folder can get big real quick if you do a lot of stuff and aren't aware of what is being left behind. That WizTree is good. Very fast and better than the one I was gonna suggest. Another thing worth mentioning is that not all software cleans up properly after itself when uninstalled. Usually appdata and local appdata folders are left behind but sometimes even Program Files (XP name) stuff is left behind, which is why dedicated "Install Tracker" and "Uninstaller" programs exist. A good free Install Tracker is ZSoft Uninstaller available here ... http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4 A good Uninstaller is Revo Uninstaller. The free version is available here ... http://downloads.tomsguide.com/Uninstaller-Revo-Pro,0301-10196.html Care needs to be taken with Revo, but it does have a variety of Uninstall levels which means you can stay safe if you aren't too experienced. And please call back for advice if you need any. EDIT: Just discovered that Revo Free isn't compatible with 64bit systems if that's what the OP has. 2012 topic worth a read on Unistallers/Trackers ... https://forum.piriform.com/?showtopic=36381
  3. At the risk of my missing something here (highly likely, even probable), I still don't see why pressing the download button here ... https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download ... would take Tango to the CNET download page for CCleaner. Which it did, and just for info that link on CNET for CCleaner is blocked by my browser. That's what I'm asking. Regardless of what McAfee says about the link on the CNET page, why was he taken to CNET in the first place?
  4. Hi Tango, and welcome to the forum. I don't get the sequence of events you outline above. If I press the first link in your post it takes me to the Piriform download page, where after pressing the download button under CCleaner free takes me here ... https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard ... where after about 4 seconds the CCleaner download dialogue box appears. There isn't any being passed from one site to another. Please don't construe that as meaning I don't believe that's what happened to you, but there must be some reason why. Have any of you other guys experienced what Tango experienced? I've repeated the process half a dozen times and I can't reproduce it. Something amiss here methinks which maybe should be put right. If other members wouldn't mind trying it to see if they go on that jolly but unwanted jaunt.
  5. Hi from me as well firery, although you may miss this with the topic being unpinned now. Hope life is treating you well.
  6. Quite right Tas, as does the pear in that desktop pic ... Starting as far back as possibly 2010 I've posted quite a lot of pics with Piriform Pears, but some have been disguised. Most have been spotted, some haven't.
  7. Not many trees, but another fine pear.
  8. Hi Roq, and welcome to the forum. With that newly created "ESD-USB" logical drive I can't suggest anything definitive with any confidence, but I can give you an initial suggestion which is well worth trying. When a drive has suffered some mishap, usually with the bootsectors, and is now viewed as "unallocated space", I'm a big fan of running said drive through a partition management program with a view to searching for the previous partition. Whether that is still possible after MS Media Creation Tool has created a mishap I have no idea. However, the way these partition managers work is that they will search for a "lost" partition and indicate as to whether they've found one (or more) without actually doing any writing to the drive. That is something I am sure about. Doing the initial search is completely safe and will not touch any data on the drive. Even pressing "Finish" after the search will write nothing to the drive. You have to then press the "Apply" button top left of the page before any disk writing takes place. I'm actually hopeful about this, as a number of years ago I had my system drive divided into 3 partitions (still is, 1 system and 2 data)), and I attempted to create a relatively small partition in the available free space on the larger of the data partitions, to install a Linux distro. The Linux partition was created successfully, but I only made that discovery after booting my now non-bootable system drive with a rescue cd. Hundreds of albums and movies and my Operating System now replaced by "unallocated space", and one small empty partition. Panic! Had the system drive backed up but not the music and movies as I didn't have the external drives I now have. To cut this story short, I used MiniTools Partition Wizard to search for the lost partitions and it not only found them, but it restored them. Every album and movie intact. The only difference with your situation and mine is that I didn't install any type of operating system or software, I just attempted to create a 4th partition. So whether your install has wiped out any possibility of restoring the original partition I'm not sure, but as there's no risk in having an attempt with a search it's well worth the effort. MiniTools Partition Wizard: (Free) MiniTools Guide and Screenshots: ------------------------------------------------------- Failing that, there is software out there (free) which will scan unallocated space for data, although some usually have a free recovery limit. For example Easeus Data Recovery will allow 2GB of data for free. At least that 2GB allows you to see if it works for you or not. Easeus Data Recovery: (Free version) -------------------------------------------------------- There's also TestDisk and Photorec 7.0. These are sister programs which come in the same download. Both very powerful and completely free with no limitations. TestDisk still has a "command line like" interface although it isn't command line exactly, but has a structured dialogue to follow and detailed guides for recovery scenarios. PhotoRec however, now has a Graphical User Interface and will search unallocated space for a great many file types, not just photos. TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.0 (18 April 2015), Data Recovery: File Formats recovered by PhotRec: PhotRec Documentation: TestDisk Documentation: When you unzip the download, look for "qphotorec". This being the GUI version. A lot to go at, but I hope it may help. EDIT: I would leave the quick format option, or the creation of a new partition as the very last resort.
  9. Got mine from Google Play Store razz.
  10. It backs up and restores only the entries it removes. If you want a reliable full registry back up tool for Win 10 maybe have a look at Tweaking.coms Registry Backup. Free. http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/registry_backup.html I actually use EruntGUI but it doesn't appear to have been updated for Win10. I mention that in case any of my associates on here wonder why I'm not recommending it. Of course Win10 may have it's own registry backup, but not having Win10 I have no idea. Hope that helps. EDIT: Damn, you just ninja'd me mta.
  11. I'm wondering how long it will be before someone asks me to edit this topic title. (Joke by the way, totally non political observation)
  12. I'm pleased you've got your files back whichever way you did it, but I wish you'd mentioned at the onset that you have a back up Image. I would have told you it could be mounted as a drive to simply copy out files/folders. I use my Images that way. Would have saved a lot of time researching on that drive size $Badclus file which had me worried. Seriously though, no problem at all as I am happy you've sorted the issue and got your files.
  13. I've never used Windows Defender and neither do I have Win10, but WD is an "active" AntiVirus, isn't it? If so, and if nothing has changed recently, then you shouldn't be running it with Avast, which is also an "active" AntiVirus. I'm sure if I'm wrong someone will put me right, but if not, then you could be causing serious issues with your system having two "active" A/V's running at the same time.
  14. If your files were intact on your drive, then they should still be intact. As I say, a quick format does not touch the data on the drive. As long as it was just a quick format, and as long as the data wasn't damaged originally by whatever happened to your drive. None of us work for Piriform by the way, or are experts at data recovery or damaged drive repair. We're just members like yourself, but if we can help at all with what experience or knowledge we have, we will. The obstacle to get around if possible is that $Badclus file. So with that in mind can you firstly tell us what exactly happened to your drive, and did Recuva show any files from that 100mb partition. Secondly, a good place to start with this is for you to provide us with a screenshot of how Disk Management views that drive. Or better still install something like the free version of "MiniTool Partition Wizard", which will not only show your drive state but also has a number of tools which may be useful later, after you post a screenshot with your drive loaded into it. This is how MiniTools appears (showing my drives) ... ... and on the left as an example of one of those tools you can see highlighted a "File System Checker". We won't go there yet, just show me a screenshot to begin with. Partition Management programs don't ever do anything automatically, so there's no risk simply allowing this one to display the state of your drive.
  15. Your assumption was right, but unfortunately you started off with a drive which is damaged in some way, and deviation from that was an attempt to inform and help. Recovering data from any drive, even one in perfect condition, isn't always possible. Recovering data from a damaged drive, with any free software, is sometimes impossible. I gave you two options with my first post and I emphasised that quick formatting was the second option. If you hadn't quick formatted the drive, what would have been your next move? You have a damaged drive, evident by the result of the quick format. Not caused by it I might add. If it's at all possible, that issue needs to be rectified first. The quick format hasn't done anything at all to the drive contents as it simply rewrites the boot sectors and makes the drive accessible. Whatever data was there, will still be there.
  16. Hi ssd008. The problem I believe is simply the fact that your drive was corrupted or physically damaged before we started. The extent and type of that corruption or damage was impossible to say from our end, and it now transpires from your recovery attempts that your drive appears to have had some bad sectors. Bad Sectors Explained: How many bad sectors and whether they are physical damage or data corruption was again impossible to tell without having it sitting in front of us and carrying out various tests. The $Badclus file, as Augeas alluded to above, is simply a meta file where the drive controller stores the location of all bad sectors on a drive, and prevents any further writing to those sectors. Carrying out a Quick Format clears the stored data from the $Badclus file which means it no longer has any idea where the bad sectors are. I believe this is why it now shows as being the same size as the entire drive although it probably takes up very little space at all. This information is a simplified version of my researching many many google hits on the $Badclus file. Not completely my own knowledge as it's a complex subject. Just for info, the bad sectors could have caused a search for the lost partition to fail. Impossible to say for sure. Windows does know how to format an SSD, but I believe you have to select "Quick Format" somewhere during the initial set up of the format. Do you remember specifically doing that? I don't have an SSD to check this myself. As to your data, I'm sure it will still be there as the $Badclus file doesn't overwrite the entire drive as it appears to show, but how to now get at that data I'm not sure. Running "Chkdsk" may be an option as it may repair any soft bad sectors and mark any hard bad sectors so they won’t be used again. How to Check a Disk from Windows: (CheckDisk in Win 7, 8 and 10) I don't have any personal experience of using Chkdsk on a corrupt drive, so others contributing may help here. If successful a scan with Recuva could have better results. Or, if your files are very important, it could be that the only course of action now is professional recovery, but even that may not be an option depending upon the physical state of your drive.
  17. Hi again. My apologies, I omitted to remind you to select "Scan for non deleted files" in "Options/Actions", as the files weren't in fact deleted.
  18. Hi kspecial41, and welcome to the forum. This has been asked for since at least 2012 and not being a Mac user (hardly any on this predominantly Windows forum), I can't physically look through the Mac version settings to check as to whether it has been introduced recently. However, I'm sure you've already done that so I'll assume it isn't yet an option. That's surprising as another member posted a solution back in 2012. You can find that here, but bear in mind it's over 4 years old ... https://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=35718&do=findComment&comment=215697 It may still be a workable option so you can have a look at it, and in the meantime I'll point the CCleaner devs to your post. By the way there doesn't appear to be anything in the latest CCleaner for Mac official guide here ... http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner-for-mac At least I can't find anything. With any luck the devs will respond to your post, but I can't promise. At the very least they will take notice of it. Hope that helps.
  19. Hi ssd, and welcome to the forum. If Windows now sees your drive as unallocated space (RAW), then you have the option of using partitioning software to search for and hopefully restore the partition as it was. All drives have at least one partition, and yours is lost. The second option is a "Quick Format" of the drive, which will not touch the data but will reinitialize the file system (by writing to the drive boot-sectors), and enable Recuva to scan it. I say second option because if you quick format, you will negate the opportunity to try the first option above. To save my fingers have a read here ... https://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=47569&hl= ... which links to another post for the free partitioning programs, and there are a few. Any problems, come back to me and I'll assist where I can. Hope that helps.
  20. Nor me nc, And just to carry on the "old" theme, just down the road from me in my home town of Seaham in County Durham we have the church of St Mary The Virgin, built some time between 1066 and 1090. Like Egremont Castle and it's many years, can you imagine what that little church has seen in it's well over 900 years history? The church of St. Mary the Virgin: And seeing as this is the desktops topic, that's not my desktop.
  21. Leave the harness at home and you should be OK.
  22. Of course you can't wait hazel, and it might surprise you that I remember our get together there like it was yesterday. You must still be very proud, it's not everyone wins on their first visit ... Huddersfield's first gurning champion: I was so pleased for you I had that as my desktop for a month. And I still have the photograph of the annual mod get together 2009, you'll be pleased to hear.
  23. Fascinating to have an old photograph like that of so long ago. The house I live in was built sometime around 1890-1900 and it would be cool to see what the area was like then. Yes, post a pic of what it's like now, I'll look forwards to that. By the way, what are the ruins in centre shot, the windows look like Norman arches? Join in here every month if you feel like it, just adopt some cool desktop for a day.
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