How Best to Download/Install with Only One Hard Drive

[calliecapecod]

We have lost one file folder with about 20 small Excel & Word files that are very important to my husband.

He worked on & saved one of the Excel files on 4/20, but on 4/22 the entire folder and contents were gone and search couldn't find them. We don't know what happened, but I ran a System Mechanic 7 utilty to "clean unneeded system clutter" on 4/21, so perhaps that caused the problem.

We want to try your Recover My Files program via the trial download, but we only have one hard drive. We do have floppy, zip and cd-rw drives as well as a hi-speed USB reader/writer that can use memory cards, stick, etc.

Can we use any of these drives to download, save, install and run the RMF program - or do we need to use our c: drive which has our lost data on it?

Thank you for your help!

[GDH]

If you install Recover My Files on the CD there is a small risk that you could overwrite and destroy deleted data. Recover My Files is 6mb in size so when installed it will take up 6mb of disk space.You would have to be very unlucky, but there is a small risk that this disk space could contain the data that you want to recover.

There is also a risk that if you continue to use the computer Windows will write data to the disk (it does this as part of its normal operation) and you could be unlucky and have it overwrite your important files.

The best option is to remove the drive and connect it to another PC as the secondary drive as this greatly reduces the possibility that Windows will do this and then you can install Recover My Files on the other drive.

If you cannot do this, the best option is to use another computer to create a Recover My Files CD and run it directly from the CD. There are futher instructions here: http://www.recovermyfiles.com/data-recovery-cd.php

I hope this helps.

[calliecapecod]

Thank you for getting back so quickly! Since we don't have access to another computer here, I think we'll just take our chances and load the program on our c: drive. I'll let you know how things go....