I accidentally deleted all my movie folder (about 120GB) and I really need them back! But they're not on the Recycle bin or anything, and the HDD is reporting those 120GB of space free now. I don't know what to do, please help.
see if the free "photorec" can get it for you. As long as you haven't been adding more things to the drive, they should be still there. Some people have good results with it. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/697001
I try to run it but it tells me it can't create a new file, possibly because of the antivirus. I tried making exceptions and stuff but it didn't work. My antivirus is AVG8
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You need to have another hard drive to create the place where it will store the files it finds. All recovery software won't write to the hard drive it will be trying to restore. If you have an external drive you should get it to work.
