How to Minimize Time Spent on Advanced Scan?

Question: How to minimize time spent on Advanced Scan?

Answer:

• Use faster CPU (central processing unit) for faster searching algorithms processing.
• Stop anti-virus software controls.
• Send troubleshoot ticket using Customer Support Center

Advanced Scan is a unique technology designed the way to maximize chances for deleted data detection, so it consumes lots of CPU time for analysis of every sector on your HDD to determine whether it contains something useful or not. Thus time spent on analysis of HDD surface is not a priority, priority is a guaranteed detection of deleted data.

The scanning process estimation time may depends on:

• Disk condition - the more corrupted sectors the hard disk drive has, the slower the read access for particular area is;
• Disk usage - the less free space your hard disk has the more time it takes to scan it through;
• Data fragmentation - the less data is fragmented on the disk the faster scan process can collect all information about files and their condition;

For Low Level Device Scan, the following options may affect scanning process estimation time:

• Skip Detected partition area. With this option on, the entire partition area can be skipped from further scanning and scan proceeds in next sector where detected partition ends.
  Otherwise, Active@ UNDELETE scans detected partition for lost or corrupted structures and takes more time to perform this task.
• Scan every sector. With this option on the every sector will be checked for partition signatures and takes more time to perform scanning.

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