How to tell progress of FAT32 undelete?
Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 21:50
How can I tell is a FAT32 undelete is actually doing anything?
(Yesterday I did an undelete on an HTFS system and for a long time no change appeared on the screen, but I could see and hear activity on the drive being processed, so I let it run. After returned from lunch, I found thousands of undeleted files listed.)
Now I'm trying to do an undelete on an external hard drive (Western Digital) which is formatted FAT32. Although 2 files that (I believe) were NOT deleted and are the only files still on the drive appear listed on the TestDIsk screen, in white, no other files are listed in red or white. The drive is very quiet and I can detect no activity by ear and the blue power light does not appear to be flickering as it normally does when the drive is being accessed.
Is there some way to tell if TestDisk thinks it is done (and has found nothing) or is continuing to work on the drive?
(Yesterday I did an undelete on an HTFS system and for a long time no change appeared on the screen, but I could see and hear activity on the drive being processed, so I let it run. After returned from lunch, I found thousands of undeleted files listed.)
Now I'm trying to do an undelete on an external hard drive (Western Digital) which is formatted FAT32. Although 2 files that (I believe) were NOT deleted and are the only files still on the drive appear listed on the TestDIsk screen, in white, no other files are listed in red or white. The drive is very quiet and I can detect no activity by ear and the blue power light does not appear to be flickering as it normally does when the drive is being accessed.
Is there some way to tell if TestDisk thinks it is done (and has found nothing) or is continuing to work on the drive?