Stop running, files and programs damaged

Similar to this thread i started a deep scan on all drives, it failed on step 5 on an external 1TB HDD and now some old programs that use Ddraw (Sudden strike 2 etc) have broken

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Ah i've found what's happened. Your program has edited and removed all file attributes on the executables on the drive for some reason.

You should really fix that.

I don't know what you mean by step 5, Recuva (free) only has three stages . Recuva does not change any attributes on any file on the source drive, so I've no idea what is happening with your drive.

It does have more than 3 stages and yes it does change attributes on files. Before using your program these files had compatibility and admin permissions, now they don't.

If it didn't do anything why would i be here? ?. I guess you're not willing to make your software better and would rather deny everything.

You must have a different Recuva from me then. However willing the moderators are here they don't write any of Piriform's code, nor do they deny much either.