Recovering removed files in Chrome OS
Recovering removed files in Chrome OS
It will take a considerable amount of time because the drive is 1TB. Unless my basic calculations are incorrect, it should improve to about 1% every 6 to 10 minutes. I’m not sure about Chromebooks—maybe they only use slower USB ports or have mixed speeds (2.0 vs 3.0). Any alternative methods to connect an HDD would help, since slow copying will make recovery much slower.
I connected the Seagate external HDD to my PC using a USB 2.0 port, which is linked to a SATA 1.5TB drive. My school laptop was still working, but both monitors remained black. I checked recently and noticed it was still running, though the drives were actively reading and writing data.
USB 2.0 will likely be too slow for this job, though it should still outperform what you're seeing right now. Your estimate of 5–10 hours for cloning a whole disk seems off—probably because USB 3.0 would be much faster than you thought. It’s possible the issue lies elsewhere or the USB speed is even lower than expected. Do your devices actually have USB 3.0 ports, or should we skip using the external HDD and connect it directly to the computer?
It links to your PC. Your motherboard is quite old, though I suspect there was once an empty USB port. I connected via front IO USB 2.0 because time was of the essence. Just a note, you might still be feeling a bit lost. My ChromeBook isn’t the source here—I’m aiming for different data. I own a Seagate BKP Slim external HDD that connects through USB. I use it to back up videos while gaming. I connected it to my gaming PC and used its file manager to remove old video files, freeing space. Unfortunately, I mistakenly deleted a folder containing important videos. Right now, the Seagate is attached to my main gaming machine, and there’s a program converting the external HDD image to an internal SATA 3.5" drive.