Any android 4.x and higher cannot be mounted as a drive from what I've seen and read, I believe google removed this themselves and only allow devices to connect as either a media-transfer-device (MTD) or a Photo-transfer-device (PTD)
hazelnut : yes the phone is detected when plugged in and i can access it normally; it does not appear in Recuva though.
nergal : sorry i'm not too tech savvy but does that mean that Recuva will only be able to recover from drives and not MTDs or PTDs which newer android devices are now categorized as?
Yes, your read of my comment is correct. As far as I am aware, one needs specialized software to recover from Android and that none of the current free disc recovery softwares will do it. (If I'm wrong, someone should Private Message me here and let me know: