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Topic: Search for file systems on 4TB HDD ... forever

I removed partition by accident (different hdd) so I thought that I could try GParted to restore it ... but now "Search for file systems on /dev/sdb" is active for 43 hours! My HDD is  WD Red 4TB, will it ever end?

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Re: Search for file systems on 4TB HDD ... forever

It can take a long time to search the entire disk surface looking for bits that look like file systems and the files within these.

Since you mentioned that you deleted the partition by accident, you might consider using testdisk to scan the disk for the partition and then have the whole partition restored.

Testdisk is included on the GParted Live image.