I have a 1TB drive that was accidentally reformatted.
At first PhotoRec was going reasonably fast (had a 19 hour estimated time)
So far I've recovered about 50,000 files, but in the last 24 hours the program has slowed right down. I've gone through about 25% of the drive at this point, and the software is only recovering a few files every hour. The session I'm running right now has done ~150 files in 7 hours.
Is there a reason it's going this slow? Is there a way for me to tell the program to jump ahead?
PhotoRec Experiences long delays between Reading sectors
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Re: PhotoRec Experiences long delays between Reading sectors
Do you see read error messages ?
Re: PhotoRec Experiences long delays between Reading sectors
Where should I see that? The promt doesn't have any error messages I can see.
Also: I noticed the hard drive stops spinning. (It's currently not spinning)
I have it mounted in a desktop port so it's fairly obvious when the disk stops spinning.
Also: I noticed the hard drive stops spinning. (It's currently not spinning)
I have it mounted in a desktop port so it's fairly obvious when the disk stops spinning.
Re: PhotoRec Experiences long delays between Reading sectors
Hi, I'm still hoping to get a response on this matter.
PhotoRec has been running solid the last few days and has gone through very few sectors.
The timer continues to go up.
PhotoRec has been running solid the last few days and has gone through very few sectors.
The timer continues to go up.
Re: PhotoRec Experiences long delays between Reading sectors
This has been running for the last 4 days.
PhotoRec scanned to around second 534,000,000/1,925,931,008 in about 6 hours then slowed down to only a few sectors every hour. If I didn't know any better the program looks frozen, other than the fact that the counter updates every hour or so.
What should i do?
PhotoRec scanned to around second 534,000,000/1,925,931,008 in about 6 hours then slowed down to only a few sectors every hour. If I didn't know any better the program looks frozen, other than the fact that the counter updates every hour or so.
What should i do?
Re: PhotoRec Experiences long delays between Reading sectors
Still waiting on some advice. The recovery is still going. In the last 12 hours it processed about 1000 sectors.