I accidentally SHIFT-deleted the My Music folder, but Recuva found only one deleted file. There musta been a few hundred files there. [Competition Payware] found the folder, but wants me to pay, to recover more than a quarter of a megabyte.
[Competition Payware] offers the option of installing to an external drive. Recuva doesn't. Is it possible I just overwrote even more of the deleted files permanently by installing this program?
What is the selection algorithm in Windows 7 for using free space when it needs to write something? Does it start overwriting the sectors where with the most recently deleted file was located, the least recently deleted file, or what?
OK, so I had a setting set to Music files only, and some of the files were really videos. But a quick scan for ALL deleted files still didn't find that folder. I'm trying a Deep Scan now, but that really shouldn't be required since, again, R-Undelete found the folder right away.
Never mind. My computer was just acting weird. Maybe others would like to know the answer to some of my general questions above, but I found the files that I thought I had inadvertently deleted.
[Competition Payware] offers the option of installing to an external drive. Recuva doesn't. Is it possible I just overwrote even more of the deleted files permanently by installing this program?
You can install recuva on any drive by, during the install process, changing the location (I don't remember, but you may have to press advanced in order to do so).
You can also run the fully portable (leaves 0 traces on the hard drive it isn't on) version found