I ran Recuva on my laptop, it found the files I needed, but when I select "recover" the dialog box does not list any drives or directories to save the recovery file.
Do you have a second drive? You shouldn't be able to recover to the drive you recover from as data would become overwritten. If you have to get a cheap drive with the space you need recover there and (after testing the files, as recovery does not equate with working file) copy them back to the original drive