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I have tried PhotoRec but it recovered about 150 files at most out of hundreds of thousands... All of the recovered files I could view/open were UI images from WD Smartware, which seems to have been installed on a hidden partition I guess. I suppose I'll just store it somewhere for now in case I ...

Hi recuperation, thank you for your quick response :) I haven't enabled log file creation for TestDisk as it generated a 15GB+ log file last time and I don't have the space for that now that both my external harddisks are in use for recovery. I do have a logfile from ddrescue, I wanted to attach it ...

Alright, so yesterday I finally made the time to look into this (on a 29ºC day, brilliant idea :oops: ). Tried using Knoppix but without success so I went with Ubuntu instead. I installed and ran ddrescue [GUI] and it copied the entire 3TB off my old damaged drive to my new 6TB drive without bad ...

Thank you for your reply, Christophe. How would one use ddrescue on a Windows pc? It seems it requires GNU OS, unfortunately I have no experience with that. I have attempted to copy the old disk to a new one with AOMEI before but for some reason it got stuck at 51%...

Good day,

Three weeks ago my PC suddenly completely shut down, and entered into a boot loop due to (I presume) a short circuit. After I had manually turned off my PC and subsequently restarted it after a couple of minutes, my 7-year old external HDD (WD MyBook Essentials 3TB) wasn't recognized by ...