Shiron Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Recently installed Recuva and ran it BUT it did not find my two exe files that I deleted. I ran it immediately after the deletion of the files. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted July 18, 2008 Moderators Share Posted July 18, 2008 How did you delete these files? If they went to the recycler then were deleted then Windows will have renamed them to something like dc1.exe, so look for those. You could sort Recuva's output by size, or date or extension to help you find them. Do as little as poss on your pc before you find them, and if you do recover them to a flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiron Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 How did you delete these files? If they went to the recycler then were deleted then Windows will have renamed them to something like dc1.exe, so look for those. You could sort Recuva's output by size, or date or extension to help you find them. Do as little as poss on your pc before you find them, and if you do recover them to a flash drive. I tried again....this is what I did..... deleted file bypassing the recycle bin by using the shift key. I IMEDIATLY went to Recuva and searched for the EXE file but nothing showed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 28, 2008 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2008 Have you tried doing a Deep Scan, just searching for .EXE though, otherwise you'll waste a significant amount of time searching for all files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted July 28, 2008 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2008 I assume you sorted the Recuva results by filename and then searched? Even easier is to trim the search results by typing the filename in the file/path box. I'm not sure what the Recuva Option of Show files found in hidden system directories means, but make sure that's ticked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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