Re: Would like assistance in adding a custom signature and using TestDisk or PhotoRec to retrieve the file with the sign
Posted: 27 Jun 2024, 06:21
The size of your disk where you stored the image of your data does not matter as long as there had been enough space to save the image.leni1 wrote: 26 Jun 2024, 23:26As opposed to your initial postings I had to read the last one three times.
Could you specify exactly what you mean by "this behaviour"?What was strange: The image of my data is on a 5TB drive
This is not a good case description. Where?! On that 5TB disk? You have to pass over the the clone file to PhotoRec or mount that file as a disk.
and in the PhotoRec options, I chose to search the whole partition.
Bad description. Which (new) destination?The search ends at ~1 hour or so mark, alerting me that I do not have enough space on the destination.
If you confirmed a file location on a full disk there is nothing to cure this "behaviour".By ends, I mean the search pauses, asks me to confirm that the destination directory is correct
"Should" is subjunctive. And "enough space" is not a quantitative term.The above is the behaviour I meant.and then returns me to the screen showing how many passes it has made, with estimated time having tripled from ~11hrs to ~120hrs.
The image is of a failing HDD that was NTFS partitioned and of size 250GB (the data itself is ~230GB in size). The destination is a folder on a 1TB drive which should have enough space.
Given my questions, nothing is clear.
with this line describing the environment in which I am doing the data recovery. I trust that makes it clear.