Recovering "flakey" drive

[Boowho]

Have a 500 MB drive that has physical problems.   Computer will recognize it intermittently, then not.   

I've been able to get a full "deep scan" done, and even "mark" all files for recovery.  Then the computer "looses" the drive.

I can get the drive to reconnect by disconnecting the power and maybe even give it a slight "rap" on the desk surface.

Then hit the recover button.

I have yet to see if this scenario will REALLY work.  What would be nice is to save the results of the deep scan in such a way that Recuva could be restarted to (using a saved search results file)  complete the actual file recovery phase.

I haven't checked, but is this something that might be do-able with the paid version; or possibly even with the free version.

Recuva is a fantastic product.  I figure the only one of it's kind out there and  the only one that will recovery many files when the  directory structure is completely trashed.

 

[Nergal]

32 minutes ago, Boowho said:

What would be nice is to save the results of the deep scan in such a way that Recuva could be restarted to (using a saved search results file)  complete the actual file recovery phase.

[OPINION]Sadly this could never work because when the drive mounts windows writes to the disk thus changing the results.  Do not get me wrong, this is an oft asked for feature, but likely impossible.[/OPINION]