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Never fully resolved the issue, I think I wound up plunking it into a VM and recovering everything I could that way.

Either way, there's a bug here.

As noted, I've tried FAT32, NTFS and EXT4 as source drives. I finally narrowed down my filetypes to just JPG and was able to pull off over 60,000 files without it hitting the wall.

Still doesn't explain why it was happening with Windows and a liveboot CD.

Seriously guys? Not even a single response? This is driving me insane -- I'm hitting the wall with this software, even though it seems to be the best at doing this kind of work.

Okay, clearly there is something going on that I can't figure out -- I thought I might try running PhotoRec within Windows, at first I couldn't figure out how to target a drive other than the C: drive (where I had the program downloaded), but then I found this thread:
http://forum.cgsecurity.org ...

To add to the info above; I'm launching PhotoRec in a PartedMagic environment using a UBCD.

I had a Synology unit where both 2TB drives crapped out (don't ask), and unfortunately the better of the two drives has a damaged partition where the bulk of the user data existed. I've tried other tools to rebuild the partition table but no luck, it just sits as RAW or unidentified. So now I've ...