Ran recurs portable on a very old windows laptop. Circa 2002 I think. Frankly I was surprised it even fired up at all. Recuva found files, and I restored them to a thumb drive. With both recuva portable and the thumb drive still attached, the laptop died. It now won't start up. It says there's a disk issue. I can get it to prompt me to go through a restore to factory settings, but it won't fire up as is. So, is there ANY chance that running recurs did this. I'm assuming it's a coincidence, or perhaps a result of overtaxing t he poor old girl by doing the recovery, but is there any chance at all that recurs itself killed her. I ask because I have another laptop to recover also, and on that one I can't take that chance. The other one is probably circa 2011 or so. I need to still try a deep scan on the 2002 one (which I know I can do by removing the hard drive from the laptop and connecting to another computer as an external drive) and I need to recover the 2011 laptop too. Is there any reason to fear using the Recuva portable on that one now? thanks!.
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Ran recurs portable on a very old windows laptop. Circa 2002 I think. Frankly I was surprised it even fired up at all. Recuva found files, and I restored them to a thumb drive. With both recuva portable and the thumb drive still attached, the laptop died. It now won't start up. It says there's a disk issue. I can get it to prompt me to go through a restore to factory settings, but it won't fire up as is. So, is there ANY chance that running recurs did this. I'm assuming it's a coincidence, or perhaps a result of overtaxing t he poor old girl by doing the recovery, but is there any chance at all that recurs itself killed her. I ask because I have another laptop to recover also, and on that one I can't take that chance. The other one is probably circa 2011 or so. I need to still try a deep scan on the 2002 one (which I know I can do by removing the hard drive from the laptop and connecting to another computer as an external drive) and I need to recover the 2011 laptop too. Is there any reason to fear using the Recuva portable on that one now? thanks!.