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wallywalters
 Post subject: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 6th, 2014, 17:49 
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Is is possible to pause and resume a scan without having to start all over again?
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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 6th, 2014, 18:06 
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You are probably asking because you are in the middle of scanning something and are unsure if should stop or not.

I forget if this version or any version allowed running multiple sessions of, but you could try. Then select to scan something else as practice. Then stop scan and see if it can be resumed.

This way it will protect you current scan.

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wallywalters
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 6th, 2014, 18:19 
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Unfortunately no, it doesn't allow multiple instances.
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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 6th, 2014, 18:30 
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What model drive are you scanning and how long has it been running for?
And how long has it been since the last noticeable progress?

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wallywalters
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 6th, 2014, 20:13 
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It's a 2TB Western Digital WD20EADS that's about 50 percent full. The first 40 GB is partitioned as a C Drive and the rest as Drive D. Both the Windows 7 Task Manager and the HDD LEDs indicate that the tests are still ongoing, but nothing has changed since at least 8 a.m. this morning (it's been running since about 8 p.m. last night).Image
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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 3:30 
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In 12 hours, it appears to have found very little data.

I suspect there are underlying issues with the drive.

Try checking it with MHDD as a first step.

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athena
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 8:13 
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While all other softwares are improving & are updating. Ontrack has maintained status quo position. It has removed all important features in next release.
While in older version you can add custom file signatures in raw recovery , in newer version they have done a shabby interface and removed this feature.
I am wondering why ontrack does not bother to improve on there software. Any ontrack guy pls. reply.
Now since they have Vogon international UK , & IBAS in there kitty they must be having strong R & D and development centre.
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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 9:29 
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athena wrote:
While all other softwares are improving & are updating. Ontrack has maintained status quo position. It has removed all important features in next release.
While in older version you can add custom file signatures in raw recovery , in newer version they have done a shabby interface and removed this feature.
I am wondering why ontrack does not bother to improve on there software. Any ontrack guy pls. reply.
Now since they have Vogon international UK , & IBAS in there kitty they must be having strong R & D and development centre.

Perhaps, not worth it.

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lcoughey
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 9:38 
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I'm surprised that anyone even uses the Ontrack Easy Recovery software. I haven't used it for years, but have clients who do. I've certainly received a fair amount of relatively easy projects that were unrecoverable by Easy Recovery.

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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 10:31 
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lcoughey wrote:
I'm surprised that anyone even uses the Ontrack Easy Recovery software. I haven't used it for years,

Yep, last time was I think 2008-9 maybe.. Been a while, don't recall clearly.

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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
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labtech wrote:
lcoughey wrote:
I'm surprised that anyone even uses the Ontrack Easy Recovery software. I haven't used it for years,

Yep, last time was I think 2008-9 maybe.. Been a while, don't recall clearly.



Probably earlier for me, last time I used any Ontrack s/w... 2006-7 maybe

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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
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Back then, I remember vaguely having better success with RAW recoveries using Ontrack's software despite any logic that would make one tool better than another when it comes to RAW stuff.

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wallywalters
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 14:03 
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Which data recovery softwares would you folks recommend?
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Dmitri
 Post subject: Best data recovery software
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 18:19 
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wallywalters wrote:
Which data recovery softwares would you folks recommend?
UFS Explorer

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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: Best data recovery software
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 19:01 
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Dmitri wrote:
wallywalters wrote:
Which data recovery softwares would you folks recommend?
UFS Explorer


Clone first with something like dd_rescue or media tools pro, then scan the clone.

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wallywalters
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 23:49 
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I have Norton Ghost -- would that work? And how long should I expect cloning a 2 TB drive to take?
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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 7th, 2014, 23:56 
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Got great advice from pcimage.
Stay away from anything windows based. Quite possible why the drive became unresponsive while scanning with ontrack's software.

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northwind
 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
PostPosted: November 8th, 2014, 5:51 
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pcimage wrote:
labtech wrote:
lcoughey wrote:
I'm surprised that anyone even uses the Ontrack Easy Recovery software. I haven't used it for years,

Yep, last time was I think 2008-9 maybe.. Been a while, don't recall clearly.



Probably earlier for me, last time I used any Ontrack s/w... 2006-7 maybe


Same here.
But I used it last month to try and repair an xls file.
It failed.

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 Post subject: Re: Ontrack EasyRecovery question
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labtech wrote:
Got great advice from pcimage.
Stay away from anything windows based. Quite possible why the drive became unresponsive while scanning with ontrack's software.


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