zar recovery shut down

[ajmmac]

Hi everyone—I have a 500Gb external hdd connected by usb to a Compaq Presario running winxp home—my main system crashed and I had to do a complete recovery—during this my external drive inadvertently got partitioned—was not previously partitioned—after all was finished I accessed my ext hdd and found the partition—about 3 Gb, containing some system files and another empty partition of around 460Gb—I ran zar but it only showed the 3Gb partition—using win disk manager I removed the partition and ran zar again—this showed the ext hdd as 465 Gb—I did a fell recovery option and after about 26 hrs, including scan and data identification, and at 99% complete zar terminated with error message: “access violation at 0x01400FF4 (unable to write to 0x01400FF4), program terminated.”. I searched the forum for answers—this was not unknown—tried to open logfile but couldn’t—system said it was 300+mb—deleted file and altered runtime parameters as suggested in one of the posts and tried again—same result—logfile 9+mb this time, I copied this--tried the process on another computer—took 35 hrs (slower machine , less ram)—same result—tried again on 2nd machine using unformat , scan and recover—40hrs same result—logfile empty this time-opened copied logfile, toobig too paste here but here are the last couple of dozen lines:

ROOT\LostDirs\Adobe\PageMaker 7.0 Tryout\RSRC\UKENGLSH\Help\c09ap20.htm - 3826 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\Adobe\PageMaker 7.0 Tryout\RSRC\UKENGLSH\Help\h16xb2.htm - 3508 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\Adobe\PageMaker 7.0 Tryout\RSRC\UKENGLSH\Help\images\rm_h05.gif - 1176 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\Adobe\PageMaker 7.0 Tryout\Converter for MSP_QXP\Sample\09ART_12.EPS - 146102 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\HowTo\ENU\Review12.html - 2852 bytes
ROOT\LostFiles00005\A0157372.dll - 225342 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\ArcSoft\PhotoImpression 5\UI_Framework\3DIM\resizem.bmp - 1512 bytes
ROOT\LostFiles00005\A0156662.psf - 172600 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\ArcSoft\PhotoImpression 5\Contents\Project\Edges\b05.jpg - 111617 bytes
ROOT\LostFiles00005\A0156946.psf - 11104 bytes
ROOT\LostFiles00005\A0157183.psf - 61276 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\ArcSoft\PhotoImpression 5\Contents\Common\ClipArts\Bits _ Pieces\b_note3.emf - 2216 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\BitComet\Downloads\Lost.S02E14.HDTV. XviD\lost.213.hdtv-lol.part02.rar - 15000000 bytes
ROOT\LostDirs\cladDVD .NET 3.5.6\cladDVD .NET v3.5.6.log - 74 bytes
Init done - logging
NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 631 MB RAM
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down
Init done - logging
NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 631 MB RAM
Open physical drive 00000100 success, 76319 MB : ST380013A - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0; maxLBA=156301488
Open physical drive 00000101 success, 19546 MB : FUJITSU MPF3204AT - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 1, LUN 0; maxLBA=40031712
Open physical drive 00000102 success, 117 MB : disgo disgo; maxLBA=239872
Logging - shut down

Opened it in msword—says it is 3000+pages—all data I know was on the disk is listed in one way or another using terms such as lost files—lost directory—purged etc.
Sorry this is so long but no short way of explaining—hope I have given enough information for anyone to help—or is it a lost cause—thanks.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Do you have any antivirus software running, or maybe something like "system optimization tool", something along these lines?

[ajmmac]

thanks alexey for your reply--i have avg anti-virus running--guess i should close it and try again--no system optimization programs

[Alexey V. Gubin]

I'm not quite sure this will help.
You may want to try

the latest version (http://www.z-a-recovery.com/zar-83-026.exe)
disable AVG (although I doubt it will help)
get rid of the USB case and attach the drive directly (with ATA) if at all possibleLast time we have this problem, we were unable to resolve it. We are still working on it, but still no definite solution in sight.

[ajmmac]

once again thank you alexey--have downloaded latest version and installed that--also shut down avg and will run zar again--i assume i can get some sort of adapter to connect directly to the m/b should that be necessary if it fails again--will keep you updated