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by FrozenClear
16 Nov 2014, 21:43
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Help: TeskDisk scan running very slowly log file at 5.5 gigs
Replies: 2
Views: 2080

Re: Help: TeskDisk scan running very slowly log file at 5.5

I take it from your reply you have concluded my hard disk is failing / has failed. Do you mind elaborating on how you arrived at this conclusion and also what you think went wrong? Also if possible how to prevent such failure in the future?

Thanks,
Frozen

PS: I'm working on purchasing a new drive ...
by FrozenClear
15 Nov 2014, 09:29
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Help: TeskDisk scan running very slowly log file at 5.5 gigs
Replies: 2
Views: 2080

Help: TeskDisk scan running very slowly log file at 5.5 gigs

Hi Everyone,

I have a 3TB usb 3.0 external drive that suddenly starting being detected as raw. If I click on it windows asks me to format it.

I downloaded testdisk and currently I'm running a scan that goes cylinder by cylinder. It reached 50% rather quickly, but after that it began getting read ...