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I use photorec of testdisk, and when the program is about to end the scan, and start writing in the recovery directory, the computer freezes and I have to reset everything. I make this data recovery through ubuntu live cd, and the program works on a compromised internal hard disk partition while I'm on the other along with the recovery directory. How do I proceed in order not to paralyze the computer when the program begins to write the contents recovered? am I doing something wrong?

Fabiola Ben
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  • Is the problem in the compromised partition hardware or software? – Rmano Sep 10 '15 at 07:58
  • I think it is in software; fsck had tracked corrupted attributes in f.s., now the f.s. is reset correctly to ext4, the OS is departed, nevertheless recphoto recovered a lot of elements, but I cannot see them because of the mentioned problem (along with the recovery directory I stay on the other partition) Can I copy the partition on a pen-drive? Then I could test recphoto on that device; will the pen copy maintain exactly the same bits of the disk? – Fabiola Ben Sep 10 '15 at 08:55
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    We can't recover data on the same drive. Please attach an external drive to hold recovered files. Alternatively you can also create an image of the corrupted partition to let PhotoRec recover from this image. – Takkat Sep 10 '15 at 10:19
  • Yes, I noticed it is impossible, infact I made a clone on a pen with Clonezilla and the program worked correctly. – Bento Sep 30 '15 at 17:17
  • Same issue here. Using an external hard drive to receive the data (while using photorec). My guess is that some files might be too big to be handled by the liveusb booted OS (which has to hold everything in RAM, hasn't it?) – Augustin Riedinger Mar 20 '16 at 12:28

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