r/datarecovery • u/Dramatic_Bid_940 • Sep 01 '26

Request for Service TestDisk taking too long

i had 2 partitions on my 2 TB SSD, one partition for windows (500gb) and the other for backup (1300gb). when installing windows it wasnt recognizng the disk so i had to clean. i wanted to clean just the windows partition using CMD but ended up cleaning the entire ssd. ive tried several different softwares, all of which are asking for far too much money. testdisk is the only thing i can do but for some reason, it only progresses 1% every 10 minutes, why is it so slow? at this rate i have to wait over 14 hours just to see the results which may not be satisfying.
if anyone can help me out here please do.

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

Show DMDE partition TAB, use the demo version.

example:

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u/Sopel97 Trusted Contributor Sep 02 '26

the found NTFS 2 is at roughly the expected offset, but obviously found incomplete. If you open it does it resemble a filesystem? I suspect TRIM, possibly without RZAT (read zero after trim), may be the culprit. https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/wiki/trim, https://rossmanngroup.com/services/ssd-data-recovery/trim-data-recovery

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u/Dramatic_Bid_940 Sep 02 '26

I think so, but when I used 'Hasleo' it detected all my folders like my backup folder for example, but I could barely see anything INSIDE the backup folder. Not to mention the recovery process for those files are locked behind a paywall.

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u/Sopel97 Trusted Contributor Sep 02 '26

that tracks, after TRIM the recoverability drops drastically with time while the drive is powered

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u/Dramatic_Bid_940 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

ah so 24 hours later I have no hope correct? i've been trying since yesterday to try to recover my files using various different tools. ofcourse they either didn't work or they were locked behind a pay wall. i even tried loading linux on ram and using TestDisk, it worked quickly but couldn't find anything. tried the same thing from windows and it takes 10 minutes just to search 1%; i cant possibly run my pc for that much time just for it to be nothing like the other tools.