This formatting would help change the drive to be recognized by Recuva. #2 Change drive by formatting (Mostly would work) If Recuva still cannot scan your drive, you may do the following. Video - how to change drive letter in disk management Give it a new drive letter and confirm the changes.Right click your drive when it was loaded in disk management -> click ' Change drive letter and paths.'.Right click your THIS PC on desktop, -> Manage -> Disk Management.Insert drive to PC at first if it's an external usb or memory card.You may remove the old drive letter at first, and then assign a new driver for it or you may directly change the drive letter to assign a new drive letter to it. This can be done in Windows computer disk management. #1 - Assign a new drive letter to the drive Here are some changes that you may get Recuva read the drive. Recuva failed to scan the following drives unable to determine file system type 8 Fixes to Get Recuva Scan The Drive Locked, or privacy encryption, when the drive is locked or encrypted by others or other tools such as Bitlocker or encryption software protected, Recuva will fail to read the drive.Virus infections, especially when you use your removable disk or usb flash drive or sd card from computer to computer, they will highly get infected with virus.The drive is dominated by other apps - It's likely that some other tools are using the drive, for example, a program like your antivirus software is scanning the drive or your drive is being scanned by other recovery tool at the same time?.Unable to read MFT - the MFT(master file table) is deleted or lost, so that Recuva cannot read the drive.The device is not ready - the device may get disconnected and not detecting by Recuva.Driver damaged - Uninstall and reinstall the storage drive may get the drive to be detected again.Not supported file system - The hard drive or external disk drive has no file system information, and probabaly they are raw (This one is similar to the first one, when the format is unknown to Recuva).Unknown format - The hdd, usb or memory card has raw file system (Recuva is unable to read raw usb/sd/hdd/ssd). When Recuva shows the errors message telling it failed to scan/open drives, here are some causes for the failure. Why Recuva failed to scan hard drives, USB or memory card Alternative solution when Recuva failed.
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