Extremely slow RAW partition image
Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 10:09
Hello.
I got an external 2TB WD My Passport Ultra that appears to be RAW in disk management.
TestDsik is telling that there is a partition, I can list the files, but when I ran the imaging option, after 24h it only saved 1.3GB of data (I had to stop it).
Is this normal? Can I speed it up somehow?
Also, the computer is super slow processing any kind of input with the disk connected. It takes a few minutes to process any command, from TestDisk or any other application.
The hardrive is hardware encrypted / password protected (using the WD utility), and from the moment I plug the disk it takes about 10-15 minutes until I can start the imaging option in TestDisk. The WD utility is telling me that there is also a new firmware update available for my disk. Should I try to run that first? Should I try to unencrypt / remove the password protection first)
Thanks for any advice and for these amazing tools!
I got an external 2TB WD My Passport Ultra that appears to be RAW in disk management.
TestDsik is telling that there is a partition, I can list the files, but when I ran the imaging option, after 24h it only saved 1.3GB of data (I had to stop it).
Is this normal? Can I speed it up somehow?
Also, the computer is super slow processing any kind of input with the disk connected. It takes a few minutes to process any command, from TestDisk or any other application.
The hardrive is hardware encrypted / password protected (using the WD utility), and from the moment I plug the disk it takes about 10-15 minutes until I can start the imaging option in TestDisk. The WD utility is telling me that there is also a new firmware update available for my disk. Should I try to run that first? Should I try to unencrypt / remove the password protection first)
Thanks for any advice and for these amazing tools!