How can I recover a deleted file folder?

I have 40 gig primary drive with no partitions and a second physical drive with four partitions. From the primary drive running Win98se I deleted everything on the "D" drive (the first partition of the second physical drive). Because there were many gigabytes of folders and files on the D drive, what was deleted did not go into the "recycle bin." Now I realize one of the folders deleted from the D drive was a folder containing my only copy of several hundred MP3s downloaded from Audio Galaxy. Since I deleted everything on the D drive nothing on it has been overwritten since C is my primary drive and partitions E, F, and G are the only one I've using besides C. How can recover my Audio Galaxy folder? I know there are several file recovery programs, but which one? Is there a free one? Will it recover MP3 files? Thanks in advance for some help, I hate to lose all that music!

 

Dave see your 1st post/thread.

Acknowledge to me that you read and what you are going to do!

Mike

 

Have you seen this thread?

Daizy

 

Dave.....

Dave.............

Let me know something!

You have all the file recovery tools you need!

Mike

 

Just installed Win98se three days ago.

Mike, after using scandisk let me get my critical folder I did copy it to the second hard drive, as you suggested because, as you said, the odds of two hard drives going out at the same time are about like the odds for winning a multimillion dollar lottery. I also then burned a CD with the critical folder, as you suggested. Not only did you show me how to get my critical folder, you also showed me how to protect it by copying it to another drive and by burning a CD.

The only reason I haven't run the detailed clean up schedule you suggested in your post is that Win98se on the new hard drive was a clean install three days ago. It's the two or three year old Win98se install on the old hard drive that had never been cleaned up that made me get an additional new hard drive, make it the master and then do a Win98se clean install three days ago on the new drive.

I'm still going to down load the utilities you list in your detailed clean up schedule and install them, and keep your detailed clean up schedule in a separate Word file as a guide to continuing clean ups as time goes by. But there's not much to clean up on a three-day-old clean install.

That's the only reason I'm now asking about how to recover my AudioGalaxy folder from the old C drive, now the D drive. After the clean install on the new C drive three days ago, I deleted everything on the old C drive because the old Win98se on it was trash and uneccessary. But I forget that the old C drive also had my Audio Galaxy folder of MP3s on it.

Thanks again for not only solving my problems, but also providing the tools and methods to make sure I don't have big problems in the future with my three day old Win98se clean install on the new hard drive. I think it's great that you volunteer your time to give people professional advice and assistance! You sure saved the day for me.

 

Dave... Dave... Dave......

You have something! The interuptions evidenced in safe mode!

You may have gotten them off the web since the install. It only takes one time. Or they jumped from the other drive, before you erased it.

Your call your computer!

I'm out for a couple hours.

Mike

 

Just installed Win98se three days ago.

Mike, after using scandisk let me get my critical folder I did copy it to the second hard drive, as you suggested because, as you said, the odds of two hard drives going out at the same time are about like the odds for winning a multimillion dollar lottery. I also then burned a CD with the critical folder, as you suggested. Not only did you show me how to get my critical folder, you also showed me how to protect it by copying it to another drive and by burning a CD.

The only reason I haven't run the detailed clean up schedule you suggested in your post is that Win98se on the new hard drive was a clean install three days ago. It's the two or three year old Win98se install on the old hard drive that had never been cleaned up that made me get an additional new hard drive, make it the master and then do a Win98se clean install three days ago on the new drive.

I'm still going to down load the utilities you list in your detailed clean up schedule and install them, and keep your detailed clean up schedule in a separate Word file as a guide to continuing clean ups as time goes by. But there's not much to clean up on a three-day-old clean install.

That's the only reason I'm now asking about how to recover my AudioGalaxy folder from the old C drive, now the D drive. After the clean install on the new C drive three days ago, I deleted everything on the old C drive because the old Win98se on it was trash and uneccessary. But I forget that the old C drive also had my Audio Galaxy folder of MP3s on it.

Thanks again for not only solving my problems, but also providing the tools and methods to make sure I don't have big problems in the future with my three day old Win98se clean install on the new hard drive. I think it's great that you volunteer your time to give people professional advice and assistance! You sure saved the day for me.