How long does it take to scan a hard drive? Generally, the whole scanning process can be completed within half an hour. But if there are so many files in the drive, the scanning time might last up to 3 hours depending on the size of your hard drive.

Is MiniTool Power Data Recovery safe? This software only scans the drive for lost and deleted data. It won’t make any change to the target drive and the files in it. Thus, it is safe enough to recover your data with this data recovery software.

Why can’t I open the recovered files? If you can’t open the recovered files, it means that the files are damaged or corrupted before data recovery.

How do I check whether my lost or deleted files are still recoverable? You can first use our free data recovery tool to scan the drive and then check whether you can find your files in the scan results. If the results is positive, it means that your lost and deleted files are still recoverable. Besides, you can also use the free edition of our data recovery tool to recover up to 1GB of data.