recuva doesn't start

[bkbartje]

Hi,

 

A friend of mine broke the hard-disk of his laptop,

system wound't and winpe gave me an error.

So I thought building out the hard disk and connect it to usb.

Windows7 can nog read any data, it won't even recognize the size of the harddisk. It only gave the harddisk letter(G:)

So I thought maybe recuva can help but when using the wizzard i get a time-out error while starting.

and now I turned off the wizzard connected the harddisk again and start a scan but it stuck on 0%.

It is still trying to scan but I don't have any hope for it, it is on 0% after an hour.

 

Does someone have a solution for me or do I have to search for other programs?

 

Regs

 

Bart

[redhawk]

Does the hard drive sound like it's spinning??

 

Do you hear clicking noises??

 

Is it heating up quickly??

 

It only gave the harddisk letter(G:)

I assume this is because you're using an IDE to USB adapter the drive letter is assigned but no size given I guess that's because either the drive isn't communicating or the partition table is damaged.

 

Does "Disk Management" display any useful information about G: ??

 

If the partition is damaged Recuva will not inspect the drive, you could try crippleware Diskinternals Partition Recovery and see if this program will have any luck inspecting the hard drive but I suspect it won't.

 

Richard S.

[bkbartje]

Thank you for your reply

 

I indeed use a sata to usb adapter to try to read the data.

 

I could hear the drive spinning but it didn't make clicking noises.

I don't have the disk anymore. So I can't see disk management.

 

I'm allmost sure the partition is damaged, or actually the complete harddisk because I cound't remove or add any partition on it.