Disk Cleanup

[Guest]

I ran Disk Cleanup on a hard drive with approx 60GB of photoshop files on a
Firewire port. It reported 0 bytes in Recycle Bin but 208 bytes in each of
three files labeled "Per User archived Windows Error Repor...". I checked
these three files for cleanup. There weren't any other files reported in Disk
Cleanup.

After it ran, ALL files were gone.
HELP .......... any way of recovering them? I didn't do anything else!

 

[Rock]

I ran Disk Cleanup on a hard drive with approx 60GB of photoshop files on a
Firewire port. It reported 0 bytes in Recycle Bin but 208 bytes in each of
three files labeled "Per User archived Windows Error Repor...". I checked
these three files for cleanup. There weren't any other files reported in
Disk
Cleanup.

After it ran, ALL files were gone.
HELP .......... any way of recovering them? I didn't do anything else!

Stop using the drive. There are file recovery tools. I'm not sure which
will run on Vista. Do a Good search for them. Here are a couple that work
fairly well in XP.

http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

What about restoring from a backup?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your suggestions. I've got backups for 75% of the files.
But I'm curious why this happened. Am I the only one?
Gregg

 

[Rock]

Sorry I don't know.

I do a full image of the system weekly, and nightly incremental images. I
make sure there is a current image before doing anything that might impact
the system as a whole, such as disk cleanup, particularly with a new OS
where not all the issues are known.