I have a crashed hard drive that just went bad one day at work that I am trying to recover 1 file off of. I have it hooked to my computer via USB with power and everything. I have run and run the Recuva wizard and have found the drive "d" and enable deep scan. When i hit go it says its unable to open drive. Am I out of luck on this one? This is my first time using Recuva and any and all help is greatly appreciated!
The fact that Windows is giving the drive a drive letter means that Recuva should see it.
Can you hear or feel the drive physically spinning while Recuva is trying to access it? I'm wondering how old the drive is and what "went bad" actually means. Can you give more info?
A screenshot of what "Disk Management" shows for this drive would maybe help.
It was my first time to use recuva to recover files(images) from my android phone ( Sony Xperia Sp). I already installed my phone on my computer. I tried to scan deleted files using recuva but "Unable to Open Drive" appeared. What shall I do? What seems to be the problem.
"Anyone havean Android phonewithversion 2.3or oldercalls his own,itwaseasy:These devicesconnect toWindowsasnormalUSB hard drives.SoWindowshas directaccess to memoryandcan recover lostdatawithcurrentrecoveryprogramssaveasthefreeRecuva.
Unfortunately,almost allAndroid phonesversion 4.0 andno longerconnectviamass storage modeto the PC,buton theTransferProtocols"MTP"or"PTP".This resultsindata recoveryproblems, becauseWindowscan not accesstheblock levelof memory.Instead, the systemprovidesonly theofficiallylistedfiles.Whowants to savedeleted files,sowill not progress.
However,Android devicessimilar in function toLinuxPCs.Andmaytheirmemoryas wellasreadaWindows computer.
Create a complete copy of the data partition of their mobile phones or tablets and transmits this to the PC. so you can recover your deleted data perhaps with recuva."
There is no guaranteethatyou can successfullyrecover deleted files,there is unfortunately not.
-> Ifafteraccidentaldeletionfurtherwrites(z.B.photosadded, movedor copiedfiles)to be madeon the diskdecreasesthe chance of asuccessful recoverytowards zero.
-> Once you havedeleted a fileby mistake, youno longeruse yourSmartphonebest.
-> Even if youfollow theabove points,itcan happen thatyou can not recoverthe data.
-> Also notethat it ismuch more difficultto rescuedeleted datafrom the internal memory,asofthe SD card.