How to Skip Bad Sectors Quickly During Hard Drive Scan?

[billiardair]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to recover some files from a hard drive that appears as "uninitialized" in Windows. When I attempt to scan the drive, I encounter I/O errors like this:

OS I/O error 04/11/2024 14:29:32 Sector 3337377 [4K] failed to read from after 2 attempts.

If I start the scan further into the drive (e.g., around 100GB in), the scan runs smoothly. However, I’m concerned I might be missing important files that are located earlier on the disk.

Is there a way to skip bad sectors more efficiently, so the scan can cover the entire drive without getting stuck or slowed down at unreadable areas?

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

[Alt]

Settings -> Bad Sectors -> Set Default read retry count to 0. This will make R-Studio attempt to read a sector only 1 time.
BTW, you may scan the good area first, then scan the bad area. R-Studio will merge the results together. Drive Scan -> Resuming incomplete scans or scanning the object with different parameters