PQ Lost & Found

[TOAD6147]

I acquired a copy of Power Quest's Lost & Found some time ago. Old timers from Sysopts will recall the give-away. Anyhow, I've not used it that often but have a drive I want to try to extract some file from for a friend. I started by connecting the drive a s slave to a fairly new computer. I was having trouble getting the program to recognize both drives at the end of the process. I started reading the help file and it said that any IDE controllers faster than ATA33 would cause trouble. SOOOO, I built an old computer specifically for this task and now both drives are recognized but the process of reading the source drive (40GB WD) is going to take 9 days and 20 hours!!! WTF!!! Any suggestions please? Thanks

[FatalException]

That might be an accurate prediction, based on bit-by-bit reading of the entire disk and the program's undoubtedly out-of-date recovery and reconstruction algorithms AND the computer's limited ATA/33 bus transfer rate. Also note that the drive may be failing and the program is having trouble because it is encountering bad sectors - always a speed bump.

I would have come on here first and asked about that... I would have told you to get Ontrack's EasyRecovery or DataRecovery program instead of building a new PC for this purpose. It's about $200, but it is worth it if you will be recovering data from multiple customers' drives. It cranked through my 120GB drive in under 1 hour... and works with NTFS file structures as well as a slew of others...

[TOAD6147]

FatalException,
Thanks for the info and suggestions but $200 for a program I might use once everyother year is not going to happen. The computer I built for this was free from old parts.

[Xaotic]

Try this one. It runs within Windows, and uses windows native access modes. It deals well with almost all kinds of nonmechanical damage. Best of all, it's freeware.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm