With a drive that full it does not have much capacity to be able to be swapping things in and out of memory....have you looked at what the hard drive has on it and considered uninstalling or removing things.
For instance -have you checked on all your temp file folders under users names and TEMP and Windows\Temp.....they alone may have a lot of things that need deleting.
Hey all just had a few questions I was hoping someone could help me with. I own a Seagate 1TB external hdd that was about 90% full. I was getting delayed write errors and in an attempt to fix that re Seagate's instructions chkdsk /f was run both from command console and at boot up. It hung on the verification of the USN Journal at boot and so I did a hard shutdown. Now the drive, when it is recognized by windows, is showing in Disk Management as unformatted although healthy. I am running win xp sp3.
I am currently in the process of running RecoverMyFiles but have also downloaded some other demos. On first search the program found nothing and so far on this second pass its about 25% finished also with nothing found. This will be a multiday process at this rate and I am wondering if the drive was 90% full shouldn't the program have found files by now if its gone through 25% of the blocks? Should I use another program that might work better at recovering data off a functional unformatted drive?
I also tried one of the other demos (VirtualLab, FileScavenger) by pausing/stopping the current scan but I got i/o errors and read errors respectively. I am thinking this is because the drive was still tied up with the scan from RecoverMyFiles even though I had temporarily stopped it. Can anyone shed light on this aspect also? Thank you!
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