[I am not sure if Recuva finished running]

thank you all very much. Nergal, the drive is 931 gb but, despite the size, the box that said "Scan 1 of 3: Scanning for items" simply disappeared. Either way, it has been almost 48 hours since the last scan started, if it is running at all.

 

I will try the partition program.

thanks again!!!

[I am not sure if Recuva finished running]

are you pressing scan? Does a scanning window come up?

Thanks very much for your reply,

Yes, It starts the first part of the scan, and then i went away for 24 hours for it to finish, and when I got back there was nothing. It was about 56 % into the 1st "part" when I left.

 

andavari, thank you also, yes I checked all the boxes.

[I am not sure if Recuva finished running]

Hello, I have started running Recuva twice on an external hard drive I accidentally wiped with DBAN (It was in a USB port and I forgot to unplug it, and DBAN only ran for about 15 seconds before I realized my mistake.)

 

I left Recuva to run, but both times nothing has happened. I cannot find a log or anything, and no window popped up to say "Scanning done, here's what we found" or something. I thought it was because the first time the computer fell asleep in the middle of Part 1, so I set my computer not to sleep at all, but when I got back today there was still no sign that Recova had done anything. I must be doing something wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much.