R-Studio for Mac locks up
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:38 pm
I'm trialling "R-Studio for Mac" in demo mode to see if it can restore precious photos from an external 1TB Western Digital "My Book" drive for a friend, which was formatted before transferring the personal data off it. The drive was previously used with a Windows PC, but on this occasion was formatted with a Mac. I'm using the latest MacBook Pro for this, and successfully scanned the entire drive, taking 28 hours. I only scanned for Windows based partitions.
Following the scan, there are 912 Recognized partitions - 1 green (FAT12); 910 yellow (1xNTFS, 6xFAT16, the remainder FAT32); 1 red (FAT32). When I try to open the drive files on a yellow Recognized partition, the program locks up before it completes this process - often after an hour or so. During the process the MacBook becomes highly sluggish despite the fact that neither the CPU or memory are anyway near maxing out. The only way I can restore use of the Mac is to "Force Quit" R-Studio. This is very frustrating as I can't get to a point of being able to assess if R-Studio can be used to recover the photos.
Can anybody advise me where I'm going wrong please? Cheers!
Following the scan, there are 912 Recognized partitions - 1 green (FAT12); 910 yellow (1xNTFS, 6xFAT16, the remainder FAT32); 1 red (FAT32). When I try to open the drive files on a yellow Recognized partition, the program locks up before it completes this process - often after an hour or so. During the process the MacBook becomes highly sluggish despite the fact that neither the CPU or memory are anyway near maxing out. The only way I can restore use of the Mac is to "Force Quit" R-Studio. This is very frustrating as I can't get to a point of being able to assess if R-Studio can be used to recover the photos.
Can anybody advise me where I'm going wrong please? Cheers!