Music Lost!

[Million]

Christ,
While installing the newer version of iTunes, I specified the iTunes music folder to be in my E drive, where I keep my music. So, as I added music to iTunes, I realised it was duplicating it all and putting it in this folder... I didn't have spacke for this so i deleted the iTunes music folder, then emptied the recycle bin... it seems I've deleted pretty much all of my formerly large music collection. I got 'Recover My Files' and have found some of it, but curiously not all. i told it to recover from recycle bin (nothing) and from E, where it dredged up 643MB of files - I had previously amassed nearly 30 GB! AArgh! Don't know what to do now, absolutely panicing, please help me, someone, pleeeeease

[Million]

seems it's all the iTunes files that've gone, and any foolder that contained soley them... seems very odd to me, and also that Recover My Files can't find them

[killie99]

have you tried using system restore to anytime before you lost all your music to see if that gets your files back?

[Steve B]

system restore just resets all the registry entries, i dont think it restores files.
Is all the music on CD? I had 20gigs worth of CD's copied to my hard drive and i lost it all. only had about 3500 songs tho as it was all ripped at OGG. Good luck getting ur stuff back, but i think its something oof a lost cause.

[IAmATeaf]

Doesn't iTunes by default move the files into its catalog folder, in which case you've lost the lot unless you can download an undelete utility.