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The results are the same when running PhotoRec directly from the physical drive.

Ah! This indicates that there are surface errors on your physicial drive. You need to use ddrescue to image the drive, then run photorec.

Stumpy

After spending a week learning how to use Linux and DDrescue, then ...

The results are the same when running PhotoRec directly from the physical drive.

Ah! This indicates that there are surface errors on your physicial drive. You need to use ddrescue to image the drive, then run photorec.

Stumpy

Okay, I can try this.

Is there site that can walk me through the ...

It's not a good idea to cross post with two different problems.

ekarden - As the admin says, it looks like your original media has a major defect, you will need to go to a specialist data recovery company to sort this out.

ag25 - It looks as there may be some surface errors on your drive holding ...

What O/S are you using? What version of photorec are you using? What have you tried so far? You just simply append the /log switch when invoking photorec from the command line...


Windows
PhotoRec 7.0 WIP

Not tried anything since I'm not sure how to do it.

I get a log when I use the GUI version ...

The wiki says PhotoRec should be able to generate a .log file using the /log parameter.

I'm unsure of how to do this, and am unable to generate a .log file to see if I am having any errors.

Thanks

Where did you find the log file, I can't find mine?

I think Im having the same problem as you, except mine has been running for 2 weeks now since I've been unable to get any help. I've restarted several times, but recently started taking screen grabs to track my progress:

I've got a 1TB drive:

http://i.imgur.com/mnLRXrB.png
http://i.imgur.com ...

Still waiting on some advice. The recovery is still going. In the last 12 hours it processed about 1000 sectors.

This has been running for the last 4 days.
PhotoRec scanned to around second 534,000,000/1,925,931,008 in about 6 hours then slowed down to only a few sectors every hour. If I didn't know any better the program looks frozen, other than the fact that the counter updates every hour or so.

What ...

Hi, I'm still hoping to get a response on this matter.

PhotoRec has been running solid the last few days and has gone through very few sectors.

The timer continues to go up.