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did i wait long enough?
all i wanted was to get at my files and i am sorry if i didnt understand or get it fast enough that it worked
so far, no long scan has worked... unless you want to see 300gig files.
any ideas? the drive is still sitting here...
thanks

Nothin??

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I figured out why the deep scan didnt work. when it goes far enough it gets to a place where the disks have not been formated yet, and that causes an error every read. the disk was quick formated, not slow. it was also a MBR which i dont get why it changed or implied a ...

Welcome back from vacation!!!!!

Finally got the system to finish parsing the drive without dropping it...



Fri Aug 28 18:53:40 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows XP SP3
Compiler: GCC 4.8, Cygwin 1007.34 ...

thanks for answering on your vacation... sorry

here is what ran tonight. i will try again tomorrow on the other system. for some reason it runs and at some point it decides to quit. when it does it seems to disconnect and go to sleep, then the log gives errors instead of info



Thu Aug 27 18:58 ...

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Fiona, your great.

however, the disk has halted so many times on trying to do a 3-4 day run of deeper scan its now starting to say there are errors where before it didnt say there were any... your software is great, your assistance as well, but its just not really up to being used on 3 terabyte ...

I was doing some research to try to determine how this was originally formatted hoping that would help
in this case, the drive was formatted as a NTFS MBR with 4096 sized sectors (as i said it was formatted on XP)
somehow the wrong type of partition type was written or changed as it could never be a ...

I had to kill the task after it hit 40%..
i readjusted the system so it will run and not sleep for more than 4 days
and am now running it again, hopefully i can finish the run to the end
the larger question is, once it gets to the end, then what?

if i need the results in the software, and i dont ...