Disk Cleanup

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!

"cloudrippr" wrote
>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?

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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" wrote:

> "cloudrippr" wrote
> >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?
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>

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.
--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"cloudrippr" wrote
> 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" wrote:

>> "cloudrippr" wrote
>> >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?