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pieguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
USA | | | I'm recovering a corrupted 160GB hard drive using RawCopy. It quickly copied about 60% of the drive and then went into "attempting data recovery" mode. Its been about 36 hours. I hear the drive clicking a bit every 5 seconds or so and then silence and then repeat again. I don't know if it is making any progress or is "stuck". How long should I wait or is there a better way of doing this than using RawCopy? Thanks! |
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Hi there.. the process should never get stuck. If its unable to recover some data it will move onto the next part of the disk. Unfortunately depending how bad the drive is this can take a LONG time. Perhaps you should try my Unstoppable Copier and just copy off the files rather than copy the entire disk. It may be quicker as RawCopy will also copy blank parts of the disk which isnt really necessary in most instances!
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pieguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
USA | | | Hi there. Thanks for your reply. I can't use unstoppable copier as the drive does not show up as a mounted drive, such as d: or e: I can only access the drive at the lowest level. I hope rescue some irreplaceable photos. Thanks. |
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2.5Questor
Joined: 15 Apr 2009
Andorra | | Hey
I ran RawCopy last night, but my drive made the same clicking noise that you are describing. Nervous, I stopped the process, but I am still able to mount the disk, except it stills show up as RAW. I had 50 read-errors after completing 5% of 465Gb; is this excessive?
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Its not a HUGE amount of errors - but the second the drive starts clicking its a bin job.. get your data off it and cut your loses! I think if its really that far gone you might need to use something like FileRestore Pro from www.pcrecovery.com... it can get your info back from RAW drives.. im sure there are other ones out there but thats the program ive used myself with great success!
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