I bought a data-recovery software called "Stella data recovery premium" The first time I tried it was to recover hundreds of files from a 4TB hard drive unwillingly formated, and I must say that the soft was pretty fast to run analysis and the result came quickly, showing the complete list of the lost files. I then clicked on recover, and the soft started to mount an image of the lost disk, but after 4 days and nights non stop, the process was still at 4% ...I stopped it and decided to give up on that for the present... Few days ago, my sister in law asked me to recover around 500 photos from a small 4gb usb stick, and I used the software again, thinking that such a small drive wouldn't take ages to be recovered I started the process on friday afternoon...it's still working on actually...and what is the most frustrating is the fact that the software is running on a dedicated computer with high specs, but it seems like it's only using 0.1% of the proc ressources, and 20% of the 32BG of ram...I tried to define a high priority to the soft but it doesn't change a lot I'm wondering... Can it be Window's guilt ? would it be faster under a Linux os ? Is there any way to increase the speed of these softwares, or is it normal that it's sooo long ... Does anybody know a recovery software that could use more of the ressources and beeing faster? Thanks for any tip and for reading.
Disk size is a massive factor in projected recovery time. The last app I used was Disk Drill to recover a 90% full laptop HDD. Took about a day
Yeah, I totally understand this, but in this case it is only a 4GB usb stick, plugged via USB 3.0, but well, it seems to me, after a few more researches, that this is a compulsory waiting in any cases... https://www.stellarinfo.co.in/kb/stellar-software-taking-long-scan-time.php It's a pity that recovery process cannot be accelerated by using all the ressources of a computer, even admitting the fact that it is basically a time consuming operation, I imagine that it could be faster if the software "engine" was able to use full ressources, like handbrake with encoding for exemple... but it's may be totally impossible, I don't know, I'm just puzzled...
Image the disk to high-speed NVMe storage. You need to image it anyway, 'cos you could very well damage it during the recovery process and lose everything. Then perform recovery on the image, which'll run through a lot quicker than USB. I've not used any Windows recovery software since the days of Recuva or whatever it was called, but I've recovered lost files with TestDisk and Photorec in hours, rather than days.
First of all, thank you for your time and answer, Yes, I thought so, and it's actually saving the image to an nvme M2, and I didn't touch the stick even when Windows asked me to repair it, I skipped this and ran the recovery software only, and choose my nvme drive as image target. I have testdisk, though, I thought this software would be more efficient than a free soft, but it might be the opposite , I didn't know Photorec, but I will try those 2 ones after this one ends up rewriting the image, as a comparison...
finally done...I saved more than 500 pictures, only a dozen are too corrupted, but in terms of time, a bit more than 48 hours... Trying testdisk now...
Thanks for your reply @oliverpowell ; I read some more about it after posting this thread, and well, all what you said is true, and I agree that it's basically a very slow process, and even if the computer used for my data recovery has got high specs : (32 gig of DDR4 3200 Mhz, a 12 cores running at 3.7 Ghz, a pair of M2 Nvme SSds 1tb), and if the OS itself is a super light version of Windows 10, still, the recovery process drags like a snail and use only a tiny percent of the ressources...even in the quick scan option...it's frustrating, but I admit the fact that I'm mostly trying to recover video files, so that's the slowest thing indeed...yet, I still wonder if, somehow, a dedicated Linux os, written for this very purpose, wouldn't do it faster ... but it's only a matter of conjecture
Thanks for your reply @keef247 , I read it, and I thought to myself: " it is exactly what should be able to do with Windows to speed up recovery process , but unfortunately my knowledge stops here, Every time I asked or checked, I have read that it is not possible, that the software itself should be rewrite to use more of the ressources, that there is no way to accelerate the process, but I keep thinking that there should be a way, though, I didn't find how..., it looks like it is an easy process with Mac, and an effective one, I tried to do the same with the task manager, defining a high priority to the process, without witness a tangible difference On another hand, I reckon I didn't went further in my quest, I could have run tests under linux, or search another path on dedicated forums, I am not totally giving up yet, but like many other things I wish I could achieve, I must put it aside and wait for the right moment, because time is the most difficult thing to spare in an active life
I totally believe that, and I envy you, what you describe is the goal to achieve for a user, I am ashamed to confess I never put interest in Mac, and only a slight one in Linux, I started to have and use computers with Windows xp, and I imadiatly felt an attraction to dismount it and understand how it works, then I discovered PC modding and began to feed a passion for hardware, so I never been interested by computers you cannot build yourself, and I focused on Windows. Now I regret it
Haha, very smart indeed, the way you use one OS or another in dual boot, and how you manage everything with spare SSDs, it remembers me someone's setup, the guy uses POPos and he has another screen where he can switch to a Windows desk using Windows VM. Now that I read your experience, it tickles me to put a foot in the rabbit hole, and try a hackintosh with one of my machines
I have somehow the same concept, less proffessional, as I am not mastering IT stuff like you, but it's an offline server, under Windows 10, with backups of 70% of my datas (as of now), may be you saw the build log, it's unfinished but fonctionnal https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/datamaster-a-monster-from-the-past.368570/page-4 ( but I regulary buy new drives, make copies of older ones before they die, and keep the old ones unplugged in a special crate with foam, so I even start to have backups of my backups. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, I really appreciate it, you definitely influenced me to try Mac and start to use a bit more Linux, I might surprise myself loving something I always avoided
Hi guys, well, I reckon that I am not haunting BT forums anymore for a while, I am busy with the sell of my house, large renovations were necessary to get a nice price, wich implies parts of the perimeter walls, roofs and facades, so all my projects are stopped until the sale...BTW, if someone is interested by an ancient house with almost 2.5 acres of land in France, PM me https://i.goopics.net/w6i71g.jpg But this data recovery thing is still not solved, and I keep on feeling mad when I have to recover datas, I tried almost all best known recovery softwares like Easeus, Stellar, Lazersoft, Aomei and others, I never tried salvage data but all of those I tried seems to do the same job at the same speed, the speed of a snail... I keep thinking that there must be; under linux, something more efficient in terms of speed, but I don't have the time to dig out more actually, I often recover datas for people around me, it works, if you can dedicate a computer and let it go without being hurried, that's fine, but dedicated resources on that operation are still ridiculous compared to the brute power of the machine and it is sooo frustrating...
