Hi
'Device not ready' seems to be a problem in Recuva since about 2010. many users have had this problem for 5 years.
I have followed all the instructions about spinning drives up, changing computers etc and it makes no difference.
what is interesting is that folders will recover, files will not. For example, in my music collection tracks 1,3, 4,8 will recover yet 2,5,6,7,9 won't. The ones that don't show up as device not ready.
It can't be sleepy drives as I've tried this on multiple systems Win 8.1 Windows 7, Vista, XP PRO as per the previous guidance.
There must be a problem with the software.
Is the read write rate too fast or caching ? eg., external USB2 to an external USB3 device, or could it be the HDD does not have enough disk space?
I have over 80,000 files to recover, Recuva sees them and declares them as excellent .... BUT device is not ready stops the process. It does not make sense that a recovery process that takes 3 hours, constantly access the source drive and the destination drive would spin down causing device is not ready.
Can recuva go and test this properly and see if you can replicate this error OR give a better explanation of what the error actually means.
Thanks
