Recuva Will Not Cancel

After multiple attempts at running Recuva, and having it stall out at 23% during Stage 2, I followed this forum’s advice, and canceled when it completed stage one.

except it won’t cancel. It’s been cancelling for roughly two hours at the time of this post.

if I force quit it (as I did when it had stalled on stage 2) I won’t be able to access the found file list.

any suggestions?