Is there anything I can do at all to speed this process up, will it somehow kick itself into a much faster speed after passing some time, or am I destined to let it run for whole 89 days as suggested? I have attempted another USB cable from another external drive and there seems like there's no change in transfer/processing speed at all during either imaging the drive or transferring a file from the drive to the local C drive. It got through the first 100,000 sectors extremely quick but now it's literally processing the sectors now at roughly around 1,000 sectors every 8giving seconds is me an estimated time of "2104" Hours and it seems to be increasing. I'm currently imaging the bad drive which has 1,953,458,176 sectors. I've been on this now for nearly a week and I feel like I'm not making much progress at all.
I've just got the runtime CDBoot USB going, running on Linux and it easily gets through the scan and shows all my data, so much faster and easier than my Windows OS.
The drive is completely inaccessible via Windows and when running the software on a windows OS it really struggles to initiate the scan. I'm currently attempting to recover an external WD My Passport 1TB Harddrive using "Get Data Back Pro" by "Runtime". I'm just looking to check some things you to see if I'm on the right path here or if something's completely off.