So Close, But Yet, So Far
Well, checked on the progress of the recovery this morning, and it all looked good. I told it to recover all of my user profile to my new external hard drive At first, it estimated 4 hours to finish. It quickly changed to 1 minute and then finished. I was slightly puzzled at how it had copied over 7 GB of data in about a minute and a half. I opened up the folder that it had been recovered to and I saw all of my files. When I dug deeper into My Music folder, I saw that the files were there, but when I hovered the mouse over them, I noticed that each file had a size of 0 bytes. In other words, the file had been created, but contained no data. I was slightly irritated and started running simple scans on all of the detected partitions. Then, the program crashed. This means that I will have to scan the hard drive all over again, about a 10-12 hour process in all. To help it go faster, I am now copying an image of the hard drive to another hard drive that is much faster. By doing this, the preliminary scan goes from taking 5 hours to a little less than an hour. It will take around four and a half hours to create the image (compressed to save space), but things should go much faster after that. Maybe I’ll be up and running again by the weekend. Or at least I’ll start on that road since my term paper will be finished by then.
