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Data recovery program taking a month

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While transferring some data to our server I backed it up on to an external 250GB hard drive because the drive it was on was going to be added to a RAID array and needed to be formatted. At some point after the data was all copied over the drive got corrupted. I've had a similar drive for over a year and this has happened once ro twice before when it suddenly got disconnected when there was a lot of activity going on. I was able to recover all the data on that drive in a day or two. This drive has currently been going for 23 days. Actually about twice that but the computer it's attached to has decided to randomly restart partway through several times making me start all over again.

Right now it's been stuck recovering thumbs.db for about 2-2.5 weeks. There's roughly 610 million sectors and so far thumbs .db has spanned sectors 400-450 million (where I'm currently at, who knows how much longer it will go) I know there's some corrupt files because the recovery program said so but when I let it sit long enough it eventually moved on.

I'm using Easy Recovery Professional. Has anyone else run into a situation like this before where a recovery takes forever?
 
400 million+ sectors? On an LBA drive, that's 200MB. Thumbs.db should only be a few MB at most. All it is a thumbnail file generated by Windows XP/2003 of pictures in a folder, it can be safely skipped if the program will allow you to ignore it.
 
600 million blocks, not sectors, my mistake. I wish I could skip it. I know there's no reason it should be more then a few megs but for the last few weeks the number of files or folders found hasn't changed and it says the last file it found is thumbs.db
 
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