Need more advice fellas....DiskDrill Recovery seems to perform much better when using a more up-to-date version of the software....well, duh!!!! 
The newer version of DiskDrill is on my Dell desktop Windows 10... it gains much more data than when performed using my iMac (which used to contain said HDD). The iMac is stuck with a relatively old version of DD.....it has a new internal HDD running OS X Lion 10.7.5
Both Recovery attempts used the same setup....each computer had its own, properly formatted SSD connected via usb. The original iMac Seagate HDD is in an external dock (Voyager brand) and connects via usb to the desktop computers....and the DD software does show a numerous amount of bad blocks on the HDD.
The problem arises after Windows 10 performs its deep scan... when choosing to "Recover" the deep scan folders, and selecting the NTFS formatted external SSD as their destination, the process bogs down and stalls!!! And when I try to simply "copy" the 4 Recovered folders from the "virtual drive" in Windows File Explorer, it spits back that it will take like 850 hours to complete the copying to the SSD!!! I let File Explorer try to copy to the SSD for about 5 hrs earlier today and the status literally stayed at: 0% files transferred.... The files were definitely copying, I could see the number of files left to copy was decreasing. But, seriously, 850 hours!!!!!...surely there is a more efficient method.....thoughts, suggestions, input?????
Is it because of the difference in the file/drive formats....NTFS vs HFS?
The newer version of DiskDrill is on my Dell desktop Windows 10... it gains much more data than when performed using my iMac (which used to contain said HDD). The iMac is stuck with a relatively old version of DD.....it has a new internal HDD running OS X Lion 10.7.5
Both Recovery attempts used the same setup....each computer had its own, properly formatted SSD connected via usb. The original iMac Seagate HDD is in an external dock (Voyager brand) and connects via usb to the desktop computers....and the DD software does show a numerous amount of bad blocks on the HDD.
The problem arises after Windows 10 performs its deep scan... when choosing to "Recover" the deep scan folders, and selecting the NTFS formatted external SSD as their destination, the process bogs down and stalls!!! And when I try to simply "copy" the 4 Recovered folders from the "virtual drive" in Windows File Explorer, it spits back that it will take like 850 hours to complete the copying to the SSD!!! I let File Explorer try to copy to the SSD for about 5 hrs earlier today and the status literally stayed at: 0% files transferred.... The files were definitely copying, I could see the number of files left to copy was decreasing. But, seriously, 850 hours!!!!!...surely there is a more efficient method.....thoughts, suggestions, input?????
Is it because of the difference in the file/drive formats....NTFS vs HFS?