Hello everyone,
this is my first post.
My computer just died. I am using an old backup computer now, to which I attached the dead C drive, to see if it was ok. Turns out, it isn't. My backup computer was able to "See" the drive, when connected via an external drive case, but could not access it, and it claimed it was completely empty. It also slowed my backup system to a crawl when attempting to explore it.
There was no clicking or anything else to imply it was a mechanical failure. Even now, it spins up just like a healthy drive. Some people I asked said it might just be a corruption of the "menu" (I think that's what they said), and that all the data might be fine.
One person said to use Recuva. So I just installed it. But after a few minutes, (and also based on the description on the main page of the Recuva website), Recuva seems to be only meant for recovering deleted files.
Is this correct?
Or, did I simply not dig deep enough? Can Recuva indeed see and recover the data on this drive? I haven't spent hours and hours attempting this, but after at least 5 minutes, I saw nothing to imply this is something that Recuva can do. It seems to be meant only for retrieving deleted files on a working hard drive.
Can someone please shed some light on this?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
