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Looong time estimate


TreelineA1

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Accidentally reformatted 3TB USB drive. Installed Recuva, and ran deep scan which quickly found 28,283 files. However, after 7 hrs run time, still on 1st stage, 1percent complete, the time estimate is ticking up, currently at 18 DAYS. Does this sound like normal operation?

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I think that the first batch of files found is the normal scan which a deep scan runs first, zipping through the MFT. However a deep scan has to look at and anaylse every unallocated cluster. Three tb is huge, and at 4096-byte clusters it would take 8.5 days even if it could anaylse 1,000 clusters a second, and it's probably processing at a far lower rate than that. Being USB connected will slow it down as well. These disks are just too large to backup, too large to recover.

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