Recovering lost Data, Should I pull the USB EXT and run it under SATA?

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In another thread, I had my 4TB Seagate USB3 drive corrupted when switching from a Win7 to Win10 OS. CHKDSK got the drive to show up, CHKDSK did not report any problems after 24 running on another PC. But I am clearly missing files.

Example a Folder at the root ALEXA is completely missing. In my main folder PHOTOGRAPHY, subfolder WEDDINGS, Lightroom shows the first half of all the files are missing. These are not randomly missing, Just like the first 100 out of 200 photos.

So I ran Recuva (15 hours later) was able to recover files lost in a specific folder.

I'm running it again on a second folder now.

Would this process go much faster if I remove the HD and run it via SATA? I'm, pretty sure I'm past the 1 year warranty anyway.

Most of my files are there, But I can't tell what is really missing.

Recuva is slow at 15 hours.

Any thoughts.

Thanks

Max