Forgive me in advance if this is a silly question...I am sort of new to drive recovery stuff (and Recuva).
This past weekend my hard drive failed--to the point where my laptop warned me that no drive existed in my drive bay. The disk doesn't spin--at all--and checking the bios and running a quick diagnostic confirmed that there was indeed, no drive being detected.
Luckily I had backed up my folders a few weeks ago (else I would be totally freaking out ) but there are a couple of files I'd like to retrieve because they have been updated since my last backup.
I have two drive bays in my laptop...so, after getting things downloaded and in order on my replacement drive (C:) I powered down my computer, popped the dead drive into the second bay and restarted.
After starting the Recuva wizard, it could not find the dead drive either--just my C and D (DVD) Drive locations.
So, to my silly question: Does that mean that the docs on the drive aren't recoverable because my laptop can't detect the drive? If so, are there other approaches I might be able to take?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone could provide.