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Dragonfly41,
Thanks again for responding.

"A hexeditor might help" [Do you know of any that can search a drive for an ascii sting? I'll do some more searching myself.]

I found and used HxD hex editor and it found unique strings from files of interest on my hard drive. Unfortunately, the files ...

Thank you for offering this needed software to users. I was able to complete a scan when I didn't store partial files. However when I look for partial files, PhotoRec doesn't come through for me. There seems to be a few bugs that I'm hoping you can help me work around:

1. PhotoRec doesn't utilize ...

I'm not getting any action here so I'm going to post this under a new topic: Prematurely stops before USB Flash drive is full.

dragonfly41,

Thanks for all your advice and help. I'll work my way backwards from your lastest to your oldest suggestions:

"Have you looked at temp files in same folder as your changed file?" [Yes, within an hour of the discovery of my loss, I had a technician look for temp, auto save, and ...

Some missing details of my unfortunate situation:

Media Type: Laptop
Manufacturer Brand: HP
Model: G70-468NR Notebook PC
Media Size Capacity: 157 GB of 285 GB used
Operating System: Windows Vista

CIRCUMSTANCES OF FAILURE:

A 10MB Excel 97 file Todo_h_2004+hp.xls which is open most of the time and ...

Can PhotoRec be used to simply search for an ASCII character string on a hard drive like"/return/" without the quote marks? If I know that this string, which is in an Excel file, does not exist on my hard drive, then I can give up my search for the deleted file that contained the string.

Is there ...

I've needed to use this feature to select another destination since I'm recovering to a relatively small USB Flash drive from Hard Drive. There seems to be a few bugs that I'm hoping you can help me work around.

1. PhotoRec doesn't utilize all the space available on the USB Flash drive before ...