AngelArcherWasRight

Did you reinstall windows after formating ? How did the hard drive die ? The data you lost might be on a dead platter , the data you see on a surviving platter maybe... some hard drives were known to have such failures. Part of the data unrecoverable, could be explained by a dead platter among the lot inside the HDD. For the duration of scan I am not sure... but depends on the size of the hard drive to give an estimate, an 8 gig sd card could take an hour with deep search I think

See quote at end then read my question : I don't use Bart PE, i want a bootable USB that will boot the PC alone, no OS. I would like to use my Recuva Pro and how will it recognize the licence if I put the installation files on a usb drive ? Does that work? This way it will recover files booting recuva pro on an external USB drive , then I have 1 external hard drive to which the restored files are saved, I search files that are lost from a computer's 3 hard drives, I'd recover data 1 HDD at a time, one after the other, but always saving recovered data on the external HDD. 2SSDs, 1 PATA hard drives are on the computer. Could this be done. Haven't found an answer yet confirming recuvaPro licensee can use it as DOS to get on a computer without booting its windows. The Recuva PRO software should be on a USB key to do so I don't wanna boot the computer to lose data from the system file created as cache on boot. <<There's no need to incorporate Recuva into BartPE just store the files on a flash drive, boot BartPE with the Flash drive already inserted and it should be ready to access.>>