Firstly, I am a novice (eg, ignoramus) about the proper use of testdisk. I only used it briefly years ago.
I used photorec to find files on an 32 GB SD card. It ran for a number of hours and then reported a goodly number of files, which it saved to a file on my computer.
Then I started teskdisk on the same SD card.
It indicated that it had found an intel partition and I started it working.
It continued for more than 2 days, reporting error after error.
Today, I stopped it with a Control-C command after it failed to respond to "q".
I looked in the pdf for an explanation of (a) such a long, continuing effort without getting through all 32 GB or "giving up" (reporting failure) and for a reason it didn't repond to the quit command.
Obviously, a major cause of the problem may be that I didn't use testdisk properly, but it didn't ask for additional instructions...
Thanks for any clarification and for making these programs available.
stevesr0.
testdisk keeps on for more than 2 days.
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Re: testdisk keeps on for more than 2 days.
Looks like your SD card died. Contact a data recovery company.stevesr0 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2020, 23:53 Firstly, I am a novice (eg, ignoramus) about the proper use of testdisk. I only used it briefly years ago.
I used photorec to find files on an 32 GB SD card. It ran for a number of hours and then reported a goodly number of files, which it saved to a file on my computer.
Then I started teskdisk on the same SD card.
It indicated that it had found an intel partition and I started it working.
It continued for more than 2 days, reporting error after error.
Re: testdisk keeps on for more than 2 days.
@ recuperation,
Thanks for response.
I put it into a new phone after stopping testdisk and the media files look intact.
HOWEVER, my question was about testdisk going on so long. Does it not have a built in method of stopping itself when it seems futile to continue?
stevesr0
Thanks for response.
I put it into a new phone after stopping testdisk and the media files look intact.
HOWEVER, my question was about testdisk going on so long. Does it not have a built in method of stopping itself when it seems futile to continue?
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Re: testdisk keeps on for more than 2 days.
2 days do not have any meaning when dealing with low reads speeds of a cheap device combined with possible additional errors.
Consider Testdisk and Photorec as expert tools without the flight envelope of an Airbus plane.I looked in the pdf for an explanation of (a) such a long, continuing effort without getting through all 32 GB or "giving up" (reporting failure) and for a reason it didn't repond to the quit command.
Obviously, a major cause of the problem may be that I didn't use testdisk properly, but it didn't ask for additional instructions...
You are free to consult a professional service or to buy any promissing recovery tool.
Did you monitor Testdisk the whole time?
No. But it comes with a manual containing a special chapter for this case: [...DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk...]
Despite having a flight envelope even an Airbus pilot has to read the manual.
Re: testdisk keeps on for more than 2 days.
Thanks for response.
I thought DDR rescue was a separate program. Will look at that.
So, apparently it isn't abnormal/unusual for testdisk to go on indefinitely without stopping.
Thanks for answering my question.
stevesr0
I thought DDR rescue was a separate program. Will look at that.
So, apparently it isn't abnormal/unusual for testdisk to go on indefinitely without stopping.
Thanks for answering my question.
stevesr0