In the first 5 seconds or so of scanning it found 57 files (yeah! I thought) - but nothing in the 8 hours since. The sector count is still advancing (very slowly) but it has not even reached 1% yet. It would probably take weeks to scan the whole drive at this rate.
This drive had ~30GB of "jpg" files on it - and was not overwritten or formatted.
Since Photorec hasn't found anything else since the initial flurry of 57 files, is it likely NOT GOING TO - or should I let it run and see what happens?
BTW - the sector count is increasing every 3 - 25 seconds in increments of about 2000 - 6000 sectors at a time. I can hear the heads in the HD moving on these intervals as well so it appears Photorec IS reading the drive. It worries me, however, that it's not finding anything.
