I think I'm pretty much screwed but I thought I'd come here for an opinion.
I had an external drive (Lacie) that had a large portion suddenly become unallocated and the drive was turned into a RAW system. I used a file recovery program (Recuva) to recover whatever it could and moved it to my WD 6T drive. Somewhere in day 6 (guessing) something happened that cut the power or connection to the WD drive and after recovery I tried to access it and got a Dirty Drive message. I tried running the scan from the popup that Windows gave me but it wouldn't run. So next I ran chkdsk through the CMD Prompt and the check started and said I had to dismount the drive, which i did. It seems to be running but I am well into day 3 and it is still listing "Corruption was found while examining file in directory "X"" , over 30000 entries so far.
Is it normal to take this long?
Is there a better way to scan a larger disk like this?
Is there any way to use a file shredder and just delete the recovered folder? Would the disk still be corrupted?
Sorry for rookie questions but I just never picked up all the technical stuff.
I had an external drive (Lacie) that had a large portion suddenly become unallocated and the drive was turned into a RAW system. I used a file recovery program (Recuva) to recover whatever it could and moved it to my WD 6T drive. Somewhere in day 6 (guessing) something happened that cut the power or connection to the WD drive and after recovery I tried to access it and got a Dirty Drive message. I tried running the scan from the popup that Windows gave me but it wouldn't run. So next I ran chkdsk through the CMD Prompt and the check started and said I had to dismount the drive, which i did. It seems to be running but I am well into day 3 and it is still listing "Corruption was found while examining file in directory "X"" , over 30000 entries so far.
Is it normal to take this long?
Is there a better way to scan a larger disk like this?
Is there any way to use a file shredder and just delete the recovered folder? Would the disk still be corrupted?
Sorry for rookie questions but I just never picked up all the technical stuff.