by Alt » Mon Jun 01, 2015 1:12 pm
Actually, checking SMART is a good idea to start any disk operation.
There may be another possibility: the file system on the disk is corrupted. R-Studio doesn't simply "opens" a partition, it performs a very deep analysis of its file system to find deleted and lost files. Sometimes that results in a very slow file enumeration.
If you need just to copy files from an ext partition, you may use some free software like
Ext2Fsd Project.
Actually, checking SMART is a good idea to start any disk operation.
There may be another possibility: the file system on the disk is corrupted. R-Studio doesn't simply "opens" a partition, it performs a very deep analysis of its file system to find deleted and lost files. Sometimes that results in a very slow file enumeration.
If you need just to copy files from an ext partition, you may use some free software like [url=http://www.ext2fsd.com/]Ext2Fsd Project[/url].