Hi all,
I'm using the paid pro version of Recuva and its only retrieving a tiny percentage of files of my "quick formated" harddrive.
The harddrive was windows 8, I'm using a windows 7 laptop with recuva installed.
There is 932 GB of data on there, and the files are all shown to be in "excellent" condition, but when I try to recover, the message window says "Device not ready", 0 files recovered (for most of them).
The hardrive doesn't appear to be sleeping, I can hear the hard drive spinning, and it works for some other files. I've tried changing usb ports on my pc, I've also saved a folder with a picture file which I've opened on my harddrive (since I read someone say that might help to keep the drive active). All to no avail.
I've even tried scanning/recovering in safe mode, still the same problem.
It takes a few hours do do the deep scan, all the data shows as being in excellent condition, but I can't access most of it.
The stuff I can access is just garbage, internet cookie files, etc. None of the pictures, movies, program files are being recovered.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated !