Strategies for a corrupted drive

A corrupted drive has no hardware problems but the data is inaccessible due to file system corruption. In Disk Manager it may be shown with or without a drive letter.

Disk Manager shows a corrupted drive with no drive letter.

Attempts to access the drive may generate a formatting request such as the following:

Recovery procedure

 Download and run File Scavenger® as follows:

Look for: *
Look in: The disk number of the corrupted drive, in this case "Disk 1".
Mode: Quick first and Long if Quick does not work.

Disk 1 is selected in Look in. Quick scan is used first.

If files are found and successfully previewed in demo mode, you can buy a license and save the files to another drive.