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EASYRECOVERY - how long does it take [Solved]

acityfan - Latest answer on Sep 3, 2009 6:39pm BST

Hello,
I'm was trying to recover some data which was on a external hard disk which went down for no reason and now won't mount of my desk top
I am now trying to recover data transfered to my dodgy ext hd from my pc using easy recovery v6.10 My pc is a hp pavillion dv2007 ea, windows family xp, 1Gb memory, AMD Turion 64 x 2 processer, 100 Gb hd
I tried using version 4 with advance and deleted options, the software was using up 50% of my processer, my internal hard disk wasn't running and the building tree process stayed at 2 o'clock ( the white portion of the circle) during 4days!
I did get a virus and had to get <racine window>\system 32\hal.dll fixed, so there is no doubt I have to re-install my os.
Which is the best option to use to recover useable files transfered and not copied to my dodgy ext hd using easyrecovery v6.10 on my pc (advanced, deleted or raw recovery?)
Is it normal that the tree building process takes over 4 days with my config or is the tree damaged beyond repair when I had the dll fixed?
Thanks for your help

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anybody Jul 17, 2009 9:16am BST

Dump Ontracks shit and use a reliable recovery tool :-)

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BETH Sep 3, 2009 6:39pm BST

Well that just happin to me and the best way to solve it easy is going to the bottem of your page where the is a little clock looking thing click on that and when it comes up untick all the boxes and it will go back to normal Hope that helped

SEEYA

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anybody Sep 26, 2008 12:13am BST

I'm also suffering from the "Building Tree" phenomena on Ontrack Easy Recovery. Does this ever end or is it really stuck ?

If seven hours of a Core 2 3GHz CPU are not enough to build a tree, how much is? Will it ever finish?

So far, this Recovery Tool doesn't live up to it's reputation (looks more like a buggy piece of shit. Didn't work in Vista64 btw, had to install XP for it).

I've had good success with GetDataBackNTFS but I wanted to try if EasyRecovery could save other/different/more files...

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exoart - Jan 5, 2009 7:31pm GMT

don't be stupid... CPU power has nothing to do with hard disk recovery..

the amount of time required varies depending how big your disk is (or the selected sectors) and how badly the disk is damaged... the head runs over the same area repeatedly on the disk until it gets the information its looking for, and if the disk is messed up, it will definitely take longer.

most recovery software does the exact same thing, and is usually OS specific, as Vista/XP 64bit use the hdd controller differently to the 32bit version...

anybody - Jan 5, 2009 10:10pm GMT

So why does Easyrecovery then use the CPU for several hours?

The harddisk I was trying to recover data from was not physically damaged (only part of the partition had been overwritten due to user-stupidity), so disk heads trying in vain to read sectors were not the problem.
Everything else was working fine, all other recovery programs were able to work in < 2 hours including recovery of files, while Ontrack's Easy Recovery Bug-Collection was still planting (uhm, building) trees after 7 hours.

Anonymous - Jan 12, 2009 10:03pm GMT

I have a different recovery program, though it tried to build the raw file tree for over 60 hours before I decided it wasn't actually doing anything (3.2ghz Core 2 duo, 640gb hdd, lost files because of a computer restart while resizing partition).

khan - Jan 18, 2009 7:23am GMT

i have the same issue with my xternal hard drive...500gb seagate free desktop drive...i ran the ontrack recovery but its been almost a day and it still says "building tree"....i had bout 350gb worth of data on my drive...need most of it recovered...can anybody suggest if i should just wait a few more hrs/days or m i just wasting my time...oh yea m running this on vista in safe mode w/ networking....thx

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anybody Jan 18, 2009 5:31pm GMT

I wouldn't wait. This program is just buggy as hell and will probably never finish. Use a different software, this has become a bad joke.

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Bored - Feb 7, 2009 9:30am GMT

Took 9 hours to build tree on a 46GB partition. Most filetypes searched for.
Indicator stuck at 2 o'clock.
Fragmented drive. Only start of files are found. Maybe because of byte patterns in the files
that looks like start of other file types.
Seems to max out at 16384 files of same type. Then start to name the file backward and
therefore asking if you want to overwrite the found files. 16383-16382-16381----

Bored - Feb 7, 2009 9:35am GMT

Took 9 hours to build tree on a 46GB partition. Most filetypes searched for.
Indicator stuck at 2 o'clock.
Fragmented drive. Only start of files are found. Maybe because of byte patterns in the files
that looks like start of other file types.
Seems to max out at 16236 files of same type. Then start to name the file backward and
therefore asking if you want to overwrite the found files. 16236-16235-16234----
And then 99000- and down.

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