I have recently downloaded and tried a couple of undelete programs including the free Pandora Recovery (which PC World tested and found alright) and Undelete Plus. They all work on my F: drive which I use just for backing up files. None will scan my C: drive for deleted files, either crashing, finding nothing, or running continually.
I wonder if there is something wrong with my drive. I ran DskChk and it doesn't find any problems. I have avast! antispyware running but I stopped its "On Access Protection" when running the Undelete programs although none warned about antivirus programs being a problem. I had had Norton Systemworks installed along with its Norton Recycle Bin but uninstalled that a month ago. The uninstall left some bad directory entries in \Recycler\Norton which I had to delete with the "Unlocker" program before I could delete the \Recycler\Norton directory.
Is there another way I can verify that the directory structure etc of my C: drive is really OK? Any other suggestions would also be greatly appreciated.
Old Dude
BTW I am not actually trying to get back a lost file at this time, just preparing for the future.
I wonder if there is something wrong with my drive. I ran DskChk and it doesn't find any problems. I have avast! antispyware running but I stopped its "On Access Protection" when running the Undelete programs although none warned about antivirus programs being a problem. I had had Norton Systemworks installed along with its Norton Recycle Bin but uninstalled that a month ago. The uninstall left some bad directory entries in \Recycler\Norton which I had to delete with the "Unlocker" program before I could delete the \Recycler\Norton directory.
Is there another way I can verify that the directory structure etc of my C: drive is really OK? Any other suggestions would also be greatly appreciated.
Old Dude
BTW I am not actually trying to get back a lost file at this time, just preparing for the future.