TestDisk on 86%, analysing very slowly
Posted: 26 Jan 2014, 15:50
Hello,
I've had a problem with a dedicated web server I rent where both hard disks on the raid have failed. This happened around yesterday lunch time, the server stopped responding and it appeared to have gone into a reboot loop.
The hosting company removed the disks and put some new ones in. They've plugged one of the old ones in via USB, but it comes up in Disk Management in windows as "Dynamic - Invalid". They set TestDisk 6.14 running on it last night, but around mid-morning it seemed to have hung at 85% so they restarted it. However, it again hung at 85%, but they did notice this time that the cylinder being analysed was increasing, albeit very slowly. They left it running in the hope that it would maybe get over some bad cylinders, then speed up again.
However, its now 2.45pm and its only moved up to 86%. It is still going through the cylinders, but only 1 every 6 minutes or so, its currently on 26217 of 30400. However, its not currently displaying any read errors - would it normally show read errors on this screen if there were any, and if so, and the fact it isn't, is this a good sign that its likely to be able to recover data?
Also, is it likely that after its gone over so many cylinders it might suddenly speed up again?
Unfortunately, although I used to download the backups from the server regularly, I haven't done this for a while, so all the database backups are sitting on that drive. They did manage to get to the c: partition and I looked through it last night, but I don't keep anything on there, its all on d:.
If its being this slow to run, what is the likelihood of it succeeding and recovering the data?
I'd appreciate any advice - I've been working on this for almost 24 hours solid now, haven't had sleep for about 36 hours, so I'm just a little stressed at the moment and am in need of some good newss.
I've had a problem with a dedicated web server I rent where both hard disks on the raid have failed. This happened around yesterday lunch time, the server stopped responding and it appeared to have gone into a reboot loop.
The hosting company removed the disks and put some new ones in. They've plugged one of the old ones in via USB, but it comes up in Disk Management in windows as "Dynamic - Invalid". They set TestDisk 6.14 running on it last night, but around mid-morning it seemed to have hung at 85% so they restarted it. However, it again hung at 85%, but they did notice this time that the cylinder being analysed was increasing, albeit very slowly. They left it running in the hope that it would maybe get over some bad cylinders, then speed up again.
However, its now 2.45pm and its only moved up to 86%. It is still going through the cylinders, but only 1 every 6 minutes or so, its currently on 26217 of 30400. However, its not currently displaying any read errors - would it normally show read errors on this screen if there were any, and if so, and the fact it isn't, is this a good sign that its likely to be able to recover data?
Also, is it likely that after its gone over so many cylinders it might suddenly speed up again?
Unfortunately, although I used to download the backups from the server regularly, I haven't done this for a while, so all the database backups are sitting on that drive. They did manage to get to the c: partition and I looked through it last night, but I don't keep anything on there, its all on d:.
If its being this slow to run, what is the likelihood of it succeeding and recovering the data?
I'd appreciate any advice - I've been working on this for almost 24 hours solid now, haven't had sleep for about 36 hours, so I'm just a little stressed at the moment and am in need of some good newss.