Newbie Question
Posted: 30 Jan 2014, 14:25
Am I going about this the right way?
I have a 500 Gig 2.5 inch drive which was subjected to a mechanical shock. I've run photorec, and after a few days, recovered several thousand files, but it was going to take about eighty days to work its way through the whole disk.
I've aborted the operation and I'm now running testdisk, doing an Analyse cylinder run, which has got another twent four hours to go.
I've tried to find a backup FAT, but it looks like its gone. Windows 8 sees the drive but prompts me to format it, and stops responding if I click on it.
Thanks in anticipation.
Pete
I have a 500 Gig 2.5 inch drive which was subjected to a mechanical shock. I've run photorec, and after a few days, recovered several thousand files, but it was going to take about eighty days to work its way through the whole disk.
I've aborted the operation and I'm now running testdisk, doing an Analyse cylinder run, which has got another twent four hours to go.
I've tried to find a backup FAT, but it looks like its gone. Windows 8 sees the drive but prompts me to format it, and stops responding if I click on it.
Thanks in anticipation.
Pete