Hi there, I am having the same kind of problem with Recuva.
With me has not even shown when it is going to finish, and it has been more than 36 hours busy.
Right now I am scanning with HDtune as it was suggested here. But can someone help me clarify a couple of things?? The disk is recognized by windows, but I cannot access it. In the disk manager it says that the partion is "unknown (bitlocked encrypted)". But I never activated bitlocker. In fact the disk started to be damaged and I r
I have just seen this thread; I'll try to help where I can, but those things are complex and there are many things to unpack here...
Windows does not (out of the blue) activate it on its own, there is a recovery key (which is different from the BitLocker password) during activation for safeguarding... If it were actually activated, and you have a Microsoft account linked to your user in that machine perhaps they key is saved there? See here if that were the case: https://account.microsoft