Recuva recovered files not converting into readable entities

[majortom]

Hi,

brand new newbie so plaease excuse any faux pas with the etiquette - I'll do my best.

Hard drive crashed yesterday taking all my data with it. Most of it is backed up but sadly a couple of days worth is not owing to

failure of backup prog - no excuse. Badly need to recover it. The data I need is in a clump of about 69 GB on a PC hard drive of 2TB which is therefore largely empty space.

I ran Recuva which took an amazing 19 hours in Wizard mode to amass the 69 GB and transfer it to an external hard drive.

So far so good and some of these files even have recognisable names. But when I hover or right click over any file it shows no indication of the Recuva program indicating it will proceed with recovery as it says in the literature.

I have tried dozens.Double clicking opens the file which contains gobbledygook (mixed figures and letters).

I don't know where to go from here

Is there another program I can run on the mixed files?

Can I run something else on the originals?

This isn't what I was expecting!

Advice would be much appreciated.

Many thanks

mt

[Alan_B]

I ran Recuva which took an amazing 19 hours in Wizard mode to amass the 69 GB and transfer it to an external hard drive.

Do you mean that Recuva has actually saved 69 GB to this external drive ?

If so I see no need for further involvement of Recuva as indicated by

But when I hover or right click over any file it shows no indication of the Recuva program indicating it will proceed with recovery as it says

Was the crashed drive internal or external, and how was it connected ?

What version of Windows.