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I haven't tried, though I'm a bit reluctant as this *is* moving, albeit at a snail's pace. What would be the benefit of trying in safe mode? Also, do you mean running the program in safe mode or running from Windows in safe mode? Up to 227 files recovered now...

Also very low. Here's a shot of Recuva performance properties from Process Explorer:

Recuva process is just using 155MB RAM and no CPU at the moment. This is on a brand new build with a 3.5GHz i7 and 16GB RAM - and plenty of overhead.

Only trying to recover files from my PHOTO directory (3,523 files; 86,395 ignored - from Recuva). It's really slowed to a crawl now. Only 5 more files recovered overnight (9%/194 files recovered).

Thanks Augeas. See my responses in-line above. ONE file has been recovered since I started this thread. Now at 9% (189 files recovered). It was somewhere around 90 files about 24 hours ago. The drive is incredibly slow when I plug it in. It takes minutes for all of the partitions to show up in windows explorer. I can't get Disk Management to load while it's recovering - it hangs on "Loading disk configuration information", and none of my drives show up in Disk Management (not the case when the drive isn't plugged in).

Hi Alan, Sorry, guess I thought it was obvious that I removed the hard drive and was doing this in another computer. I'm referring to the partition that was the C drive (It's K on the new machine)...

So I had the C drive of an HP laptop fail after only about a year. The drive itself has 4 partitions (main/C, "SYSTEM", "Recovery", and "HP_TOOLS"). The C partition is the only one that isn't accessible in windows (shows in windows explorer but says it needs to be formatted when you click on it). ETA: This drive has been removed from the HP laptop, and I am trying to run Revuca on it from a different machine. I had Recuva scan it, and after about 24 hours, it was only at ~52% (for a long time - seemed stuck there). I canceled the scan and saw that many undeleted files were found (which is what I want). I found my photo dir, which is what I'm most concerned with, and started recovering. Recovery has now been running about 36 hours. 188 files have been recovered (8%), and Estimated Time Left is at 27 days. It *is* recovering, but very slowly. It has been at 8% since at least this morning. Looking for advice on what I should do here. Clearly the files are still there and recoverable. Do I just let it run? Is there a better option? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.