bearcat

The computer contains two internal hard drives. One of them works, one of them doesn't. There is also a working external drive, very large. The hard drive is not mechanically dead. It spins up. The files are there, I just can't open them. The important thing is, I need some step-by-step instructions on how to create a totally-safe and totally isolated place on the live drive, for recovery. I don't want to infect my working drive with any possible virus on the non-working drive.

I have never used Recuva, or any other such program. I have very little computer knowledge or skill. I have a computer with three hard drives, two of them internal. One is dead, I suspect due to a virus. How can I have Recuva save the recovered files to a quarrantined portion of another drive, so that I can scan that section for viruses before using it? Thank you.