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I am on my second run with PhotoRec and it has frozen at the same spot both times. It has been frozen now for over 12 hours. How do I correct the problem? Is there something wrong with the drive that test disc could possibly fix.

First Run frozen at this point
Reading Sector 2470809153 / 3907029168 ...

I'm running 6.14-WIP and getting the same problem. I also have a lot of .txt files that have UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULAME3.89 (alpha ...

I stopped it and restarted and told it not to search for the video files, photo files or music files. These types of files were the majority of the data that was on the hard drive and I already have a copy of it. PhotoRec started running really fast and I was hopeful that this would fix the problem ...

See post
http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/how- ... t1619.html

I had the same problem. You have to use the arrow keys. Left or right arrow keys will get you to a screen where you will see a list of all your drives and then you can use the up and down arrow keys to select your drive.

I formatted a western digital 2tb drive that was full. I thought i had a backup of everything and it turns out that I was missing 1 directory. The drive prior to formatting was setup NTFS in the following layout.
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.....Folders
.....Shares
..........Photos
..........Funkys
..........Users ...