Closed pabloab closed 6 years ago
I was recommended to use ddrescue
and work on generated disk image but before trying that alternative and after 3 hours of work photorec reach the "Recovery completed." (153 files recovered).
So probably the algorithm that calculate ETA may need some adjustments.
The ETA will never be reliable with bad sectors as their distribution on the disk is unknown.
If become so unreliable to the point it say going to take five years then probably shouldn't display it at all. This is a bug IMO.
Like this guy on Askubuntu I'm trying to recover files from a external hard disk drive with some bad sectors:
In my case my 1TB HDD connected with USB 3.0 will finish in... 5 years. If this is sadly true I suspect the user should receibe a warning. I also have a superfast SSD drive on my main computer, I wonder why photorec doesn't just make an image and work on the ssd.