Newbie question:
Been running PhotoRec for about a week now, looking for some recently deleted .wav files. It seem to be trying to recover everything since the day I bought my computer. ...and it's only at 20%
Is there a better way to do this that I'm not thinking of? I'm quite impressed with what it is digging up... but it's substantially more than what I need.
And it's taking a loooonnnnnng time.
Thanks so much!
custom date or file type parameters? Topic is solved
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Re: custom date or file type parameters?
Is the CPU at 100% ? Otherwise it may be a problem of bad sectors, in this case, there should be warning messages.
It can also be a slow disk (ie. USB1 or very slow USB2 disk)
It can also be a slow disk (ie. USB1 or very slow USB2 disk)
Re: custom date or file type parameters?
I am sending it to a USB disk. Perhaps that's it.
So... I can't only search for certain file types? All or nothing?
So... I can't only search for certain file types? All or nothing?
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Re: custom date or file type parameters?
If you want, you can choose the file formats to recover
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec ... to_recover
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec ... to_recover