DATA Recovery

paradisiac · 21 May 2010 at 08:21

we have been using ontrack easy recovery for some time now. it takes on average 2-4 days to do a format recovery. my question is, why does it take soooo long, is it because it takes that long to find and restore files, or would a powerfull pc speed it up noticably? if so, what needs to be good, cpu or ram?

Admiral Huddy · 21 May 2010 at 08:26

2-4 days?? Hardly fast data recovery so you have a right to be concerned. Is this with the system in your sig or a server/workstation? I am not familiar with the product but it could be uncompressing ZIP files, performing disk surface, decryption (if that's set etc) scans all sorts.

Moving to Windows forum

paradisiac · 21 May 2010 at 08:33

its not using my system no, its at work. its a amd sempron 2.2GHz single core with 3gb ddr800 ram.

paradisiac · 21 May 2010 at 08:57

why was this moved to software? it was a general hardware question as to whether improving hardware would cut down recovery times.

Admiral Huddy · 21 May 2010 at 09:03

Apologies - i thought it was aimed at the software rather than the hardware.

paradisiac · 21 May 2010 at 09:07

thats ok, only reason i mentioned the software was so people using the same software with better hardware might give more details, or someone doing the same thing with different software on better build recovering in half the time would still indicate its probs hardware problem.