Copying, please wait... What's going on?

[peter22]

Computer with Windows 7 64 bit
Boot drive is a Samsung SSD 840 with 240GB, NTFS formatted
Due to an poorly written disk imaging program. the image of
a floppy disk was not written on A: as requested but on C: and,
according to tha program, had failed.
However, next morning the PC had crashed and reboot failed due to a not
accessible boot device.

To recover I did the following:

- Attach an USB3 external 4 TB hard disk
- Boot Knoppix Live DVD
- Examining /dev/sda with GParted I found a FAT partition which contained the floppy content
Partition size was 232.89GiB. Used space was 1.35MiB, unused 52.50 KiB
- copied /dev/sda to a file 'corruptssd'

- used TestDisk on the image file of the SSD

I could find my NTFS partition of drive C and started copying files, each
directory in root separately. This worked well and the resulting files
are usable (at least the pictures and text files I looked at).

The I started to copy the directory 'Users' .
Its now copying for over 12 hours, at the moment it
displays "Copying, please wait... 74622 ok, 0 failed"
The number increases by one about every 10 minutes.
When using lsof to check which file is processed in my recovery directory,
I can see its always the same big file.
Using the file manager of Knoppix I see that the
recovered "Users" directory contains 79579 files but
TestDisk shows only 74622 as copied.
Why is there a difference?
TestDisk increases the number of copied files but the
number of files in "Users" remains the same.

What is TestDisk doing here?
Is there a way to have TestDisk show the file name, size and
already copied bytes of the file currentlz recovering_

[cgrenier]

It will be faster to use TestDisk to fix the NTFS boot sector (Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List and if you see your files, Write and confirm).