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Photorec scans the same sector(s) repeatadly.

Posted: 20 May 2015, 21:23
by waterlubber
I'm trying to recover a deleted .odf file with Photorec. It involved rm -rf ing an old hard drive, but I forgot to move my project over. AFAIK, it has not been written to yet. However, Photorec seems to loop between sectors 480Mil~~520mil, and previously 100-170. What's going on?


Also, is it safe to restart with different parameters?