help with My Book Premium II 1TB recovery

[hezagenius]

Last week, my HD went bonkers and now I can't access it. I have a lot of music on this drive (~650GB) that has taken a long time to amass. I have been archiving my CDs as WMA Lossless files and then converting some to mp3 to put on my ****. The drive letter shows up in the My Computer window but when I try to access it, I get an error about something called an inpage operation. I've looked this up and the details zfd pretty vague.

I bought and downloaded Recover My Files. I selected the Full Recovery option (option #2) and selected all the file types I could think of that are on my HD (images, documents, spreadsheets, mp3s, wav, wma) and started it last night around 10pm. I had to use the Physical Drive mode and selected "Go to end of file" to help speed things up. When I last looked at the computer before bed around 12am, it had found 374 mp3 files and its progress was about 6,000,000 out of 1,953,000,000. I checked this morning around 8am and its progress was about 27,000,000 and it had still only found 374 mp3 files. It was still going. I know for a fact that there are at least 20,000 mp3 files. Is it normal to run this slow? At this rate, it is going to take weeks and weeks to fully scan the drive. I turned off the screensaver in case that would take up memory. My CPU is 3GB.

Any thoughts?
Should I restart the scan?
Should I change the parameters of the scan?
Should I try different software?

[GDH]

Hi,

Stop your current search. Close the program down, and then restart it again (this will reset Recover My Files to the default options).

First run a "Fast Format Recover" on the physical drive. This should take less than 40 minutes to run. Look in Folder View of the search results screen for your files. Do you find them?

If not, next try a Complete Format Recover. Search the physical drive. Search ONLY for the default selected file types and also add the MP3 file type.

Let this search run for at least 2 hours. In the search progress window you will see "OS Items Found = xxx". Keep the search running until this number starts increasing rapidly, and when it stops increasing and remains stable for 10 minutes, then you can stop the search and let the results rebuild and display in the results screen. Each OS Item found is a file with its full file and folder name.

Please let me know how it goes. You should be able to recover all your data.

[hezagenius]

Thanks for the help. I will try that tonight.

Before, when I selected option #1 (Fast File Search I think?), it couldn't find the physical drive. I made sure to select the Physical Drive button in the options and it still couldn't find it. If the software couldn't find the physical drive on Fast File Search, will it be able to find it on Fast Format?

Also, I have a lot of WMA Lossless files that I would like to recover. Will this software do that? I noticed that wma filetypes weren't part of the default settings.

Thanks

[GDH]

Hi,

When you run a "Fast File Search" the physical drives are not displayed, as this search must be run on a drive letter.

When you run the Format Recover options, you will see the physical drive listed.

Yes, when you run the Format Recover Options, you will be able to recover your WMA files.

Follow my instructions in this thread and let me know how it goes.

Thank you.