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TestDisk hung at middle of analysing Cylinder

Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 22:53
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

Re: TestDisk hung at middle of analysing Cylinder

Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 13:01
by cgrenier
Does the command "dmesg" return some disk errors ?
Is the CPU near 100% ?
Is TestDisk using more and more memory ?