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Hmm, this is actually quite helpful! I might actually be able to hit page down now and actually find what I want, however, if I could use more advanced search filters like ! or - some sort of "not" filter? that'd even be more helpful.

Or is just basically a filter that automatically works like ...

ddrescue doesn't get "stuck"
ddrescue has options for bypassing damaged sectors.

Here's one example.
http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue#Kernel_2.6.3.2B_.26_ddrescue_1.4.2B

Now, this is a bit of a nitpick but when you said "but ddrescue gets to 31% and then gets stuck." If you really mean ...

I ran this on windows on testdisk 7.1 32bit and 64bit (I tried each version with the same result).
Main question:
Is there anyway to tell testdisk to ignore certain inode numbers? or ignore/limit it's search to certain inode numbers?
Long ramble:
Basically testdisk undelete is returning too many ...