How do i pause Recuva when I am scanning a large hard drive .

Recuva
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I would like to pause recuva from scanning ,reboot my computer, then resume from original spot . The scan says 12 hours to go.How do I do this

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Hi rick, and welcome to the forum.

Sorry but you can't do that sadly. Are you scanning the drive you want to reboot (system drive)?

If so shutting down will involve more writing to the drive (saving settings etc.) which will already be active and possibly overwriting data you want to recover.

If a non active drive then no worries but you will have to start again. However, if you are well past stage1 of the scan, stopping it will still display a lot of files, maybe the ones you want without having to start over.

Hope that helps.

:)

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Hi ,thanks for info. I am scanning my external hard drive ,as I accidentally erased it .So I will just have to wait for the scanning to complete,in about 15 more hours.