To: kurtb and mta
Good day! It's my first time in this forum and I have a few questions.
Kurtb: You said ""the scan for videos though ran for maybe a week or so before being completed, so it did take quite some time." -- Since you did separate scans for each of the file types, did it take you a week or so for each of them? or the whole week for all separate scans?
mta: Is it better if I do what kurtb did, which was to separately scan my drive? Will that make it faster than scanning ALL files at once?
background on my issue: I'm deep scanning a 1TB external WD hard drive, which my laptops do not want to open. (The drive is "detected"as local hard drive e: but once you click it, nothing is opened). I'm on my 3rd day of deep scan (since during the regular scan only a few files were recognized and the file names were all jumbled up, so I decided to use deep scan), and right now its at 26% with estimated time of 9 days (the days fluctuate every now and then). I know that something is happening since last night it was only 25%, but I'm just worried about my laptop being open for 9 more days straight. Also, concerned about the estimated time... maybe something could hasten the work like separately scanning the file types like what kurtb did?
Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch!
P.S. I am not at all techie so if you could simplify your responses, that would be great too. Thanks again!