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6 Drive Failure Detection

Data Rescue can detect when a drive may be failing by analyzing the time it takes to read from the drive. If at any time it detects this, the Drive Failure Warning window will appear:

Drive Failure Warning
Drive Failure Warning

At this point Data Rescue has detected slow read access on one or more of your drives, which may be a sign of a failing drive. If this persists, you have a few options:

  1. Stop the current task (scan, recovery, etc.) and perform a Clone. Cloning allows you to copy your drive to good drive. Data Rescue can then scan and recover off the good drive safely.

  2. Disconnect the drive from your computer, turn off its power (if applicable), and contact a data recovery company.

  3. Let the current task continue until completion (not recommended).

Warning: Attempts to run a scan on your drive (if it is failing) for an extended period of time (e.g. days) may cause the drive to completely fail. This could prevent any data recovery company from being able to recover your data entirely.

Selecting a drive and clicking Ignore will cause Data Rescue to ignore all further warnings on that drive until the application is relaunched.

Selecting Details will provide a list of the sector (block) offsets and the time it took for Data Rescue to read from that sector. This is more useful for expert users such as data recovery technicians.

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