Drive too slow to save data
Summary and Symptoms
Your drive boots or is recognized (often very slowly), but the recovery or transfer of the data isn’t possible or practical, since everything is much, much slower than normal. The most common reasons for this are that your drive is in the early stages of failure and has bad sectors, has g-list or other module corruption, or sometimes the drive is filled to absolute maximum capacity and has no space for cache and data rearrangement.
The Good News
IT Data Recovery has recovered thousands of drives with these symptoms, and if caught early, these are often toward the lower end or middle of our pricing spectrum, (though some are actually in bad shape, such as those with failing heads).
The Solution
Your drive is likely in the beginning stages of failure, and we want to keep it there before things get worse. Our equipment allows us to handle failing drives as safely and strategically as possible to maximize recovery speed, safety, and results. If you’re willing to accept some risk (not recommended), or if the data is not that important, you might consider trying to mount the slow drive as a secondary drive on another computer and see if you can access it at regular speeds that way. But be careful, and carefully monitor the situation and transfer (don’t walk away), and if things get slow again, we recommend discontinuing consumer-level attempts. If the drive is completely full, this might have some success, but if the drive has bad sectors, this can be risky and will probably not show much if any improvement. Still, the safest approach, by far, will be to let a real cleanroom data recovery professional handle the situation.