PC Freezes after 59s

[kwalker]

UPDATE: Tried starting in Safe Mode Command Prompt and NOT starting explorer.exe. went to C:\Program Files\ZAR and ran ZAR.exe. With default settings (reset per another post) it got to
"Elapsed Time: 1m 29s"
"Filesystem type: Not known yet"
"Raw scan: Quick Mode prescan (0%)"
"Located 9 files in 0 directories"
It actually also had changed the first block from white to GREEN!!!!!!!
then it froze up.

It seems to still be accessing the hard drive, however, because the P/S fan is lower in tone just like it was while disk was being accessed, and I hear the heads churning on the drive as if it were seeking data.

I will leave it alone for a few hours, but I suspect that it will not come back.
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The MBR and the MFT "Seem" to be OK (TestDisk believes), however when running ZAR to try to recover the data it freezes the PC after 50 seconds. It believes that the drive is RAW. The drive I am trying to retrieve is a 232 GB NTFS boot drive. Had been messed up when a password reset program overwrote SOMETHING on the drive when I stupidly opted to have it write to disk. (Son had been locked out of his PC). So now the main drive cannot be accessed by Windows/DOS without getting a "File or file system error". Stellar Information Systems had come back with the list of files (in their free trial) but required it to be purchased before I could recover anything.

Actually, until I tried some settings that another user's thread had mentioned, ZAR never came back with any elapsed time - it just sat there with blanks. (Timeout to 200 ms, Skip Factor = 32, and unchecking "Avoid repeated retries")

Was running ZAR with PC in safe mode. Problem with the drive is, since Windows can no longer recognize it, I cannot check for bad sectors, etc. I cannot slave the drive to another PC because it is an SATA drive, and my other motherboards are all EIDE (and the one working drive on the "damaged" PC is also EIDE).

[Alexey V. Gubin]

If you just boot into Windows, does Windows start up normally?


If you disable a Quick scan option in ZAR,

On the first screen click "Advanced Configuration"
In there, under "Common filesystem analysis"
Change "Quick Scan" from "Automatic" to "Disabled"
Click OK to close config
Does this help?

[kwalker]

New info: The motherboard/CPU are 64 bit but am running Windows XP 32 bit. The drive I am trying to recover is an SATA, but the drive now booting from is an EIDE (PATA).
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Using the backup drive as the primary, I cannot boot into Windows without re-initializing it with microsoft. That is why I was using Safe Mode.

The primary drive that is the one with errors will neither boot nor even be recognized as a slave.

I made the change you recommended and it got me all the way to 1m 33s before locking the system video. By the way, each time it shows "121 MB per map block"

I really don't want to purchase "Stellar Information Systems" SW if I do not have to. It still recognizes all of the files after its quick scan but I don't know what it is looking at to be different.
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Log file (not after a few hrs run, but after it froze up the video and then I waited a minute or two:

NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 2047 MB RAM
TS: Stop vlidation
TS: Stopping validation
Logging - shut down
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New Log File with verbose logging (advanced option)
NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 2047 MB RAM
000003A4: 00:20:57.406: TS postprocessing
000003A4: 00:21:04.531: TS postprocessing
000003A4: 00:21:04.547: Open physical drive 00000100 success, 78533 MB : HDS728080PLAT20 - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 1, LUN 0; maxLBA=160836480
000003A4: 00:21:04.547: Open physical drive 00000101 success, 232 GB : WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 - Port 1, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0; maxLBA=488397168
000003A4: 00:21:04.656: Local phase 1
000003A4: 00:21:04.656: Local phase 2
000003A4: 00:21:04.656: Local phase 3
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Sector 0, row 1 - 63/488375937 @ base 0 - NTFS
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Sector 0, row 2 - 0/0 @ base 0 - Empty
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Sector 0, row 3 - 0/0 @ base 0 - Empty
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Sector 0, row 4 - 0/0 @ base 0 - Empty
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Local phase 1
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Local phase 2
000003A4: 00:21:07.531: Local phase 3
000003A4: 00:21:07.547: Ldm: started processing of the device 0100
000003A4: 00:21:07.609: Ldm: started processing of the device 0101
000003A4: 00:21:07.672: Local phase 1
000003A4: 00:21:07.672: Local phase 2
000003A4: 00:21:07.672: Local phase 3
000003A4: 00:21:07.672: TS postprocessing
000003A4: 00:21:15.078: TS postprocessing
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Processing volume ID 01010000
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: -------------------------------------
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Volume information for ID 01010000
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Origin : MBR/Primary
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Partition type : NTFS
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Capacity : 232 GB
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Number of sectors : 488375937
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: RAID type : Simple volume
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Stripe size : 1
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
000003C4: 00:21:15.109: Member 00 : 488375937 sectors at LBA 63 on device 0101
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: ---Start S.M.A.R.T. data for device WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 - Port 1, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0, ID 0101
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Attribute - Val -Worst-Thresh- Raw
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Read Error Rate - 200 - 200 - 0 - 00000000
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Spin Up Time - 224 - 193 - 0 - 00000EAE
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Start/Stop Count - 99 - 99 - 0 - 420000004597
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Unknown attribute (155) - 1 - 0 - 0 - 000000C0
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Power On Hours Count - 0 - 0 - 0 - F4BAA40A0C00
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Unknown attribute (164) - 0 - 0 - 0 - 00000000
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Unknown attribute (154) - 0 - 0 - 0 - 00000000
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: --- End S.M.A.R.T. data for device WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 - Port 1, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0, ID 0101
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: -------------------------------------
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Volume information for ID 01010000
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Origin : MBR/Primary
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Partition type : NTFS
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Capacity : 232 GB
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Number of sectors : 488375937
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: RAID type : Simple volume
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Stripe size : 1
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
000003C4: 00:21:34.797: Member 00 : 488375937 sectors at LBA 63 on device 0101
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: ---Start S.M.A.R.T. data for device WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 - Port 1, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0, ID 0101
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Attribute - Val -Worst-Thresh- Raw
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Read Error Rate - 200 - 200 - 0 - 00000000
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Spin Up Time - 224 - 193 - 0 - 00000EAE
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Start/Stop Count - 99 - 99 - 0 - A8899FE71497
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 231 - 159 - 0 - 899CDE6089
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Read Error Rate - 11 - 156 - 0 - A8899C0B7889
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 11 - 156 - 0 - 1899CDE1889
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Read Error Rate - 0 - 0 - 0 - A80000000000
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 0 - 0 - 0 - 00000000
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 222 - 156 - 0 - 2899CDE6089
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Read Error Rate - 0 - 0 - 0 - 10000000000
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Spin Retry Count - 0 - 0 - 0 - A0899CDEA000
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 68 - 31 - 0 - 9C00000001BE
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (85) - 8 - 85 - 128 - 00000080
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 222 - 156 - 0 - 20101010189
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 222 - 156 - 0 - 899CDEFC89
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (83) - 0 - 48 - 0 - A80000000000
000003C4: 00:21:54.781: Unknown attribute (156) - 221 - 156 - 0 - 41899CDDDC89
000003C4: 00:21:54.797: Unknown attribute (79) - 204 - 80 - 128 - 804FA82180
000003C4: 00:21:54.797: Unknown attribute (156) - 223 - 156 - 0 - 180000000289
000003C4: 00:21:54.797: Unknown attribute (157) - 52 - 157 - 137 - 00000089
000003C4: 00:21:54.797: --- End S.M.A.R.T. data for device WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 - Port 1, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0, ID 0101
000003C4: 00:21:54.797: Starting raw scanner for a total of 488375937 sectors
000003C4: 00:21:54.797: Raw scanner starting on disk 0101 from LBA 63 to LBA 488376000
00000478: 00:21:54.906: QS CFG INHIBIT
00000478: 00:22:04.766: Disk 0101, LBA 63 is NTFS boot sector

[Alexey V. Gubin]

I do not really see how this can be. If it is not possible to try on a different machine, then there is nothing I can suggest. Kind of puzzling but I do not see how we can investigate it remotely (without the actual equipment).

[kwalker]

I got an SATA controller card to run it on a different PC which has no SATA (only a PCI bus), 32 bit processor/mobo, and an activated version of Windows XP. I must have been brain dead to not remember such a rudimentary thing.... vs "gee, I can't move the drive". Guess what! It WORKS!!!!
Both your Software and your tech support are AWESOME!
Thanks for your patience!