Stimo

First, thank you for you interest in this case. I think the laptop is sane. For sure it is quite noisy. Maybe the cooler is tired and doesn't work properly. When I faced the problem, I first took a look to the Events Viewer. Absolutely nothing was recorded. PC stopped without warning and had no time to write an error report. Afterwards, I thought that the laptop reached it's critical temperature and shut down to avoid damage. After the 3rd or 4th crash, I performed a deep scandisk, it didn't found anything wrong. I then looked at the Task Manager / Performance during Recuva's work. CPU Usage was at average 99-100%. That is what made me think about overheating. With SpeedswitchXP at 15% max speed, I figured the laptop wouldn't reach the critical temperature. I tested this idea and it worked. Maybe Recuva has a side effect that stresses weak processors ? I'll wait for a week to see if the laptop is fine. Next, I will run a benchmark and see what it says.

Thank you for your answer, and many thanks to CCleaner & Recuva ! In fact, I succeeded in solving this problem. I used a very good program that allows to control CPU speed on XP notebooks : http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/ I used "battery optimized" setting that keeps the CPU speed at its lowest, 15% of max speed. The scan lasted for several hours, but the laptop didn't crashed, Recuva worked just fine and I recovered what I was looking for.

Hello, I'm using Recuva on a FujitsuSiemens Amilo A1645 to recover photos after having formated its hard drive. Recuva progresses to 7 % then the laptop suddenly turns off, showing no info. I wonder if this crash could be due to overheating ? Is there a way to check this ? How can I force Recuva to work slower ? Maybe on next Recuva version, a "pause" button could be added in order to let the PC cool itself ?