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Thank you, recuperation, for persisting,

I will try to phrase things more clearly.

You wrote:

"Your link is broken."

I intended to include 2 links. Somehow the first one got corrupted. I trust you mean the first one. It should read:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10 ...

Thank you, recuperation, for your insights,

Given how and when my data loss occurred, I am convinced that I fell victim to this problem:

Windows 10 corrupting removable hard drives. Work-around included! - Microsoft Community

Does the log from TestDisk that I posted on the Photorec forum ...

I want to share this quickly. It is past my bedtime.

I think I see what caused my data loss. It started when I updated a 'dormant' copy of Windows 10 on a separate (usually disconnected) SDD. I'm still operating from a second SDD that is my Windows 7 system disk most of the time.

https://answers ...

Thank you for your reply. In it you say:
" you are in the wrong forum.
You selected a German user name."

Things are not always what they seem. German is my second language; American English is primary. My father came from Schwabenland, arriving in early September 1929. Mom's family arrived from ...

Perhaps this belongs in one of the TestDisk forum branches. If so, I can create a new thread there.

I did get beyond the 'stuck at 25% problem' but find that many files I'd hoped to find were not found.

I finally managed to make time to run an overnight deep search with the partition type set at ...

Thank you for the valuable insights.

I am trying to follow up on Christian Greiner's suggestion that I also try TestDisk. I am working on gathering all the information I may need to ask for help in understanding the log files I've created and also snips of the TestDisk screens I took during the ...

Have I done something wrong?

I opened qphotorec.exe and began setting up a search of a 2 GB data disk.

My first try, using the default File Formats setting of all extensions, got stuck at 25%, same sector number at 2 hours and 5 hours of operation. The hard drive is in a BlacX external SATA box ...

I should have noted that this is not a Boot Disk. It is a simple Data Storage Disk.

Problems began when I updated a Windows 10 Professional installation and forgot to disconnect the Data Disk. The update process created a new folder and downloaded a large file to it:

F:\Windows10Upgrade\17134.112 ...

I used PhotoRec and found many files I cannot otherwise access via Windows Explorer.

Does specifying all of the file types slows down the PhotoRec process?

If it does not, is it possible to organize the resulting list by file extension?

I tried using TestDisk>Analyze and ran into this problem ...

I am trying to find the most efficient way to recover a mixture of files that disappeared from a largely empty 2TB eSATA data disk when I ran updates on an installation of Win10. I don't plan on migrating to Win10 until later this year as support for Win7 ends.

I failed to disconnect the drive ...