HDD GURU FORUMS

I'm using Data Rescue III on a USB powered hard drive with and it's taking a very long time with my iMac G5... It says 42,291 hours remaining (about 5 years) If I did it on my Mac Pro would it go faster, or is the recovery speed dependent on the hard drive speed?

No, probably your drive is bad. The more you run things on it the worse it is going to get.

The Mac Pro might cut it down to 4 years.

drc wrote:No, probably your drive is bad. The more you run things on it the worse it is going to get.

If my drive was ok, I wouldn't be posting here.
Back to the question: Is the speed of data recovery software dependant of the computer's hardware?

Apple New Orleans wrote:If my drive was ok, I wouldn't be posting here.
Back to the question: Is the speed of data recovery software dependant of the computer's hardware?

Are you shure that your drive is OK ?

Why is taking 5 years to copy !!!!

do not know if this can be a computer problem,

but easy to test it, connect the drive to other computer and see if there is any different, in the timmings.

if the problem is the same so , as others users say´s , you drive is BAD.

Houpe that your drives still alive. for make this test.

If the data are important contact a DR pro to help you.

Apple New Orleans wrote:

drc wrote:No, probably your drive is bad. The more you run things on it the worse it is going to get.

If my drive was ok, I wouldn't be posting here.
Back to the question: Is the speed of data recovery software dependant of the computer's hardware?

I'm not sure how I can answer this any more clearly.

It is going so slow because of your hard drive failing, NOT because your machine is slow. In a normal case a typical deep scan program MIGHT take up to three hours or so. If it is taking 40000+ hours do you REALLY think that it is your machine's fault? Let's assume that you're using a 1 TB hard drive, just for the most conservative estimate possible. That's 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes. That comes out to 25MB/hour or about 7KB/sec. Even the USB transfer speed, which is the slowest link in your case, should be about 35-50MB/sec on a healthy drive. Even if we take the lower number, that means you're running at .02% of capacity of the USB connection.

So, please enlighten us as to how doing this on your other Mac is going to make any difference whatsoever?

Drive almost certainly has media issues (bad sectors). Image it before it fails completely.

Better still, if you REALLY want your data take it to a pro.

pcimage wrote:Drive almost certainly has media issues (bad sectors). Image it before it fails completely.

Better still, if you REALLY want your data take it to a pro.

I DON'T REALLY WANT MY DATA, I'M JUST PRACTICING. I WANT (oops) to know if a faster computer helps and to what degree.

drc wrote:So, please enlighten us as to how doing this on your other Mac is going to make any difference whatsoever?

Enlighten me. If I knew, I wouldn't be asking.

to many bad sectors so when it fills up

the hard drive will fail for good


clone image quick

Agree

Apple New Orleans wrote:

drc wrote:So, please enlighten us as to how doing this on your other Mac is going to make any difference whatsoever?

Enlighten me. If I knew, I wouldn't be asking.

Well why don't you just try it and find out instead of wasting everyone else's time?

Which tool is best to clone the image with when the HDD is in such bad state? There have to be some tool you recommend over others?

DeepSpar Disk Imager is the best tool for the job.

But thats hardware, it cost me too much, im only looking for software solutions m8, thx though!

There is no software that will help you. You can only try different types of software.

I used to use Ghost DOS to clone the drive. You can use this on your Hackintosh too if you burn Hirens boot CD 9.9 to a CD then when your Smackintosh starts up you press C until you get the boot menu and choose Start boot cd - HArd Drive tools Ghost Dos with USB support. It skips bad sectors OK, you can play with options too.
But if the hard drive is really badly damaged then no software in the world will help. You will need some hardware to control the hard drive.
Like mentioned before - DDI or the cheaper China version DataCopyKing.

You should really search around and read some topics here. They have all the answers.

Im mostly focused on logical problems though, so I think the best tool for me is what I just bought, Prosoft Media tools. Thx for the help

Ive searched around but theres not much info about software tools at all. Just hardware. Im focused only on logical problems and this is why Ghost DOS dont live up to my standards. Media Tools does but it has lot of weird ass issues like dont support SATA off the hand but need stupid converters which is soo 90s!

Second I need something that can deal with damaged sectors such as Media tool can do, reverse cloning etc. Ghost DOS has none of that!
I ask myself which is really the best software around and nobody has a clue cuz it seems that everyone using hardware.

Try CopyR. That could work.

Is that HD Duplicator? Is that the same software? Bad documentation, there is none! Some russian that looks like &/%&%%&%&¤%/&(/(**** which makes no sence at all.
No official website and some say if its same as HD duplicator that it cost money when a website i dl it from said it was a free tool, meaning copyr.dma that is.

It looks and sounds great but Its bit difficult to use when you have no documentation and nobody knows nothing about it.


So far Ghost 32 is the tool that will do excellent job for me, that is if the author dont popup and explain why things are as I wrote in this reply.