Error... Thread fault IdentThread

[proxy64]

Runnung ZAR ver 8.3 build 25 purchased on 02/05/2008 to recover data on a WD MyBook 500GB using USB connection and Vista on a Dell XPS 420. After 15H 19M 6S there was a pop up window stating: " Error... not possible to continue... Thread fault IdentThread".

Below is the logfile (notepad would not open the log - to big - had to download EditPad Lite, which worked fine):

NT 6.0.6000 ; 3325 MB RAM
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down
Init done - logging
NT 6.0.6000 ; 3325 MB RAM
Open physical drive 00000100 success, 465 GB : ST3500630AS - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0; maxLBA=976773168
Open physical drive 00000101 success, 0 B : DELL USB HS-CF Card; maxLBA=0
Open physical drive 00000102 success, 0 B : DELL USB HS-xD/SM; maxLBA=0
Open physical drive 00000103 success, 0 B : DELL USB HS-MS Card; maxLBA=0
Open physical drive 00000104 success, 0 B : DELL USB HS-SD Card; maxLBA=0
Open physical drive 00000105 success, 465 GB : WD My Book ES; maxLBA=976773168
Sector 0, row 1 - 63/976768002 @ base 0 - NTFS
Sector 0, row 2 - 0/0 @ base 0 - Empty
Sector 0, row 3 - 0/0 @ base 0 - Empty
Sector 0, row 4 - 0/0 @ base 0 - Empty
Ldm: started processing of the device 0100
Ldm: started processing of the device 0105
Processing volume ID 01050000
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Volume information for ID 01050000
Origin : MBR/Primary
Partition type : NTFS
Capacity : 465 GB
Number of sectors : 976768002
RAID type : Simple volume
Stripe size : 1
Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
Member 00 : 976768002 sectors at LBA 63 on device 0105
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Volume information for ID 01050000
Origin : MBR/Primary
Partition type : NTFS
Capacity : 465 GB
Number of sectors : 976768002
RAID type : Simple volume
Stripe size : 1
Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
Member 00 : 976768002 sectors at LBA 63 on device 0105
Starting raw scanner for a total of 976768002 sectors
Raw scanner starting on disk 0105 from LBA 63 to LBA 976768065
ALERT!: MFT entry with alloc size 0 was encountered during identification; Base record ID 000000
ALERT!: MFT entry with alloc size 0 was encountered during identification; Base record ID 000000
ALERT!: MFT entry with alloc size 0 was encountered during identification; Base record ID 000000
ALERT!: MFT entry with alloc size 0 was encountered during identification; Base record ID 000000
QS LSIDE: 14243
QS RSIDE: 1644
Quick scan failed, reverting to full scan mode
ALERT!: MFT entry with alloc size 1229279300 was encountered during identification; Base record ID 5F4C4143
Bad sector encountered @LBA 931632291 disk 0105
Bad sector encountered @LBA 931764237 disk 0105
Bad sector encountered @LBA 931764242 disk 0105
Bad sector encountered @LBA 931764243 disk 0105
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Bad sector encountered @LBA 940129448 disk 0105
Bad sector encountered @LBA 940129449 disk 0105
Init done - logging
NT 6.0.6000 ; 3325 MB RAM
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

I see two likely possibilities,

- There was a bug in this area, which is now believed to be fixed (as of recent build 29 at http://www.z-a-recovery.com/zar-83-029.exe).

- If there are too many bad sectors on a drive, then it runs out of memory. Did you see any red dots in the volume map while it was scanning? Keep an eye on it next time. If there are many, turn off "Avoid repeated retries" in the runtime control panel. Alternatively you can click "Forget bad sectors" which should relinqish the memory. However, if there are so many bad sectors that memory gets exhausted, the drive is probably beyond repair.

So I'd say you download the new version and retry.

[proxy64]

Alexey-
Build 29 worked much better. Ran it with the default settings and was able to recover the 5,425 files that I wanted - mostly photos dating back to 1985.:)

Here is the report:

--- BEGIN RUN STATISTICS ---
CopierUsed=1
DecoupledSs=0,81.9%
Filesystem=NTFS
MachineSpecs=NT 6.0.6000 ; 3325 MB RAM
NtfsVolumeInformation=3.1,Dirty
NumMftRegions=7
OwnMD5=3cdf115cb499f6a278ec047ac077857f
QsLeft=14355
QsRight=1324
Random=856E9FC937A9A94A97B54FDE5BF2D6CE
RunTime=7h 10m 21s
SysCPU=Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
SysFreq=2394
SysMemSize=3325
SysNumCPUs=4
TaskType=1
ValAvg=95.9
Validation=7944,1340,13534
ValMax=100.0;WAV waveform sound
ValMin=89.6;GIF image
ValTime=2m 11s
Version=Zero Assumption Recovery 83
VolumeSize=976768002
--- END RUN STATISTICS ---

Thanks for your assistance.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Very well.