TestDisk hung at middle of analysing Cylinder

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
Forum rules
When asking for technical support:
- Search for posts on the same topic before posting a new question.
- Give clear, specific information in the title of your post.
- Include as many details as you can, MOST POSTS WILL GET ONLY ONE OR TWO ANSWERS.
- Post a follow up with a "Thank you" or "This worked!"
- When you learn something, use that knowledge to HELP ANOTHER USER LATER.
Before posting, please read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
Locked
Message
Author
junghongkao
Posts: 1
Joined: 21 Jul 2016, 22:47

TestDisk hung at middle of analysing Cylinder

#1 Post by junghongkao »

It run on Unbunt 14.04 with TestDisk to recovery partition.
It hung in 43% completion of cylinder analysing with few waning message.
Any suggestion to proceed further ?

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2016
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Analyse cylinder 52321/121600: 43%


check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (FAT) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 63 (HD)
FAT32 0 0 41 25 127 14 409600 [EFI System Partition] [EFI]
check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (FAT) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 63 (HD)
FAT32 0 0 47 25 127 20 409600 [EFI System Partition] [EFI]
HFSX 25 127 15 121584 254 22 1952853344

User avatar
cgrenier
Site Admin
Posts: 5432
Joined: 18 Feb 2012, 15:08
Location: Le Perreux Sur Marne, France
Contact:

Re: TestDisk hung at middle of analysing Cylinder

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Does the command "dmesg" return some disk errors ?
Is the CPU near 100% ?
Is TestDisk using more and more memory ?

Locked