| Author | Message | ||
     . (Lee) |
1. improve the speed, currently it takes about 4 hours to scan a 16GB partition C: on 36GB hdd. 2. ability to pause the scan & continue at a later time 3. automatically export the finding to a file, instead of user manually initiating the export so job can run overnight with no user input 4. the scan was very memory intensive, CPU utilization was at a constant 99% or 100% would it be possible to export finding to a file as the scan progress instead of exporting everything after the scan completed | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
1. X-Ways Trace is amazingly fast. There is no need to change the software to improve speed. A 120 GB hard disk is estimated to take 45 minutes to scan here. Please select a physical disk rather than a logical drive letter such as C:, D:, etc. C: is often particularly protected by Windows, so access is relatively slow. 2. Try pressing the Pause key on your keyboard, just as in WinHex. 3. The export would only be required manually once, when the scan has completed, so I see no potential for any great time saving. Unless exporting takes a lot of time? 4. You mean, direct the ouput directly to a file, not to the list window? Would be possible and reduce memory utilization if the list becomes very large, yes. Could you rephrase the explanation, please? I did not understand. Thanks. | ||
| . (Lee) |
Item 1. will try physical instead of logical Item 3. Yes, exporting took more than 30 minutes. Item 4. Yes, what I mean is have a caching buffer, as the scan progress it would fill the buffer, when buffer is full, buffer content would be output directly to a file. Then scan would fill the buffer again. Process repeat. It took several hours to scan a 16GB logical partition. After exporting, the file "C_export.txt" is 93MB. | ||
| . (Lee) |
Trace 1.5 SR6, encountered "error#6 error occurred reading sector 0 of harddisk 0" when opening the disk as physical. This error happen on several pc, with various harddisk capacity. No problem opening the hdd as logical, although the scanning is slow. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Trace 1.5 SR-6 was unable to open physical hard disks under Windows 9x/Me. This has been fixed with Trace 1.5 SR-7 now. Please note that you will only get maximum speed under Windows 2000 or XP, not under Windows 95, 98, or Me. | ||
| . (Lee) |
Trace 1.5 SR7, the scan result display onscreen can be sorted by clicking the column header. Notice the content is no longer sorted after exporting to a txt file. Usually not an issue, if the txt file is small & MS Excel can sort it. Unable to sort a 93MB "C_export.txt" as MS Excel is not able to load the entire file. Would be helpful if the scan result can be exported in sorted format. |