Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

The restore loop of bootex.log will need a week. i have decided to let this computer run this week. After some hours is sometimes a status bar visible, and after some days the status bar is grow. And now its 1,9 inches and the lenght of bar ist 16,3 inches..... It run already more than 2 days. I ...

The restoring of my hard drive is nearly finished, but before the end, the bootex.log (4 kb) was restored millions of times. and a lot of copies of this file are written at the target HDD.

This was a endless thing and always was the same messages written in the logfile. and 1000 files was created ...

If the hard drive have physical bad sectors it need by SATA1 10 seconds for a sector. When 10000 sectors are destroyed, it will need 28h to go over the bad area. This is a little bit to long, and if the whole 160GB hard drive have 100% destroyed sectors, the program need 100 years for detecting this ...