I have no idea whats going on, for some reason it worked perfectly when i copy pasted yours. Mine looked _exactly_ the same but gave me argument error.

Cheers 

i understand what the parameter does, its just that --recov_outputdir d:\ is not a valid option and gives me the error "A mandatory option is missing"

wasnt much there, little over 0.5bc so not a biggie. still an annoyance as i probably have to mine for a year to make up with this difficulty. only have 500ghs :\

gonna fiddle around some more with r-studio, not quite sure how it works yet. did a scan, proceeded getting annoyed going through each recovery block individually to search.
any suggestions to the --recov_outputdir parameter appriciated for a try.

Formatted my PC, forgot to back dat shit up. 
Trying to use pywallet to scan for recovery, but need some help with the --recov_outputdir parameter

Used wmic tool to get the name of the drive and so far i got this

pywallet.py –-recover –-recov_size 120Gio –-recov_device \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 -–recov_outputdir

tried \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0\pywallet which gave me errors when it completed, anyone able to help me out?