Help: TeskDisk scan running very slowly log file at 5.5 gigs
Posted: 15 Nov 2014, 09:29
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 errors for every cylinder after that. Its been going very slowly like 1 hour per cylinder. The log file for test disk is up at 5.5 gbs now.
What should I do? Should I stop the scan?
Thanks,
Frozen
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 errors for every cylinder after that. Its been going very slowly like 1 hour per cylinder. The log file for test disk is up at 5.5 gbs now.
What should I do? Should I stop the scan?
Thanks,
Frozen