Using PhotoRec to recover lost data
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lonrot
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by lonrot » 05 May 2015, 01:32
I'm doing an unlocatted data recovery, suddenly photorec got stuck in a sector, also the timer has stopped.
What should I do to resume?

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cgrenier
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by cgrenier » 17 May 2015, 18:21
Can you check the CPU usage of PhotoRec ? (Near 0, near 100% ?)
Can you try with PhotoRec 7.0 (not the older 7.0-WIP) ?
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kathbot
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by kathbot » 28 Jun 2015, 18:29
I have restarted and resumed a couple of times and it does hang at the same sector each time.
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by kathbot » 29 Jun 2015, 05:46
Strange, my first post was disapproved and the follow up was posted. I am running 7.0 on Windows and hitting the same sector each time. I too must be editing the .ses file in the wrong manner as I can't seem to skip over the problem spot.
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by cgrenier » 29 Jun 2015, 20:39
You have to remove the range you want to avoid and modify the current sector number.
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Goblin54
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by Goblin54 » 04 Aug 2015, 15:20
I'm having this same problem. How do I remove the range to avoid and modify the current sector number? Thanks!
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by cgrenier » 07 Aug 2015, 06:27
Backup the photorec.ses file first.
Using a text editor like wordpad or notepad++, edit the photorec.ses file:
- modify the sector number at the end of the second line,
- in the following lines, remove or modify the sector range you want to avoid
Restart PhotoRec and confirm that you want to resume the recovery.
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Goblin54
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by Goblin54 » 08 Aug 2015, 15:43
Thanks! I did not need to try this, because by the time I got back to the computer a couple of days later, the scan had resumed and completed.

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