Format recover extremely slow

[Foogel]

Hi, I've been running a format recover with the program. In the first 10 minutes it would go to appr. 2.5% after that in the last 24 hrs. it has basicly come to a halt, it going cluster by cluster it advanced about 0.01%. At this rate it's going to take 10.000days to recover. I tried to speed the process up. In my first try i searched for a list of extentions. In my second try I limited to 2 uncommon file extentions. This is the one that's already running this long.

Is there a way that I can recover my files in a shorter span than 30 years. I would settle for a week or so.

Thanks

[GDH]

Hi,

The first thing to check is that you are running the latest version, which is 3.30, avaialble from www.recovermyfiles.com or by clicking the update button.

Are your running a format recover on the logical drive? (ie. a drive letter) or the "Physical Drive".

If the drive that was formatted was a standard sort of drive, eg. with a windows operating system on it, the best thing to do is to search only for ".bmp" and ".avi" files. The program can rebuild the entire partiton based on finding these files.

We are currently re-doing the Format Recover interface to make it more user friendly and ensure that the search always runs as fast as possible - this release will be out in a week or so.

This will ensure it will run as fast as possible. An 80 gb drive which is nearly full of data should only take about 10-12 hours to recover.

I hope this helps.

[Foogel]

Hi, I'm running 3.30, the newest version right now. It's a physical drive 200GB dynamic drive on windows XPSP2. The drive has been working perfect, it's only 4 month old, untill last week. I moved the drive to an other computer to copy files. Neither the new nor the old computer would be able to import the Foreign Dynamic drive.
I'll look for the new release next week thanks.