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I have a full image of the drive saved, so running tools on the physical drive doesn't scare me as much as it would without having it backed up.

I saw that the NTFS partition was found, but that's as far as I can make it with this drive.

I couldn't get Ubuntu to mount the drive or the drive image, so I re-attached the physical drive to my Windows machine to see if it would mount.

Tried the list files option from TestDisk, no luck.
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Alright so I created an image of the disk using ddrescue which I should have done initially. I have a 1TB drive with 700GB of space available but no spare drives large enough so I couldn't clone the disk, but I could make an image.

Ran Testdisk on the image and made it to the List command and it ...

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Trying to recover what I can from an old 500GB WD green drive that I've had from college. No mechanical clicks, clunks or other noises coming from the drive, it's recognized as RAW when windows is booted. Ubuntu recognizes the disk as well, but says it's like to fail soon.

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