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You might consider following my advice.


First I would like to thanks for the advice so far.

But when I tried loading into the safe mode of Windows and start using photorec, it is actually recovering every files! it never works on normally booted up windows, the recovery process is still in ...

i can only read the sd through photorec/testdisk for a short amount of time after i entered windows, after a while it told me i have to format it before using it again, i have to reboot my pc to let both app to read the sd again, what can i do?

I would either use a hex editor to look the drive's sectors just to see if that produces read errors or not.
If you duplicate the drive with ddrescue you can check the logfile during and after recovery to see where a sector is not accessible.

You did not say what you expected to see on your ...

I would either use a hex editor to look the drive's sectors just to see if that produces read errors or not.
If you duplicate the drive with ddrescue you can check the logfile during and after recovery to see where a sector is not accessible.

You did not say what you expected to see on your drive ...

Even "thebest" might consider providing an error description. :idea:
Look what others users wrote and you will quickly get an idea what is useful or not.

Another good start is the manual:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf

Cross-read the documentation

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki ...

TestDisk generates a log file named testdisk.log, please copy and paste its content.
Is PhotoRec/TestDisk reporting the correct disk capacity ? If it's not the case, you should contact a data recovery company as the flash controller or the memory chip is probably damaged.


should i do an analyze ...

Tried using both photorec and testdisk to recover files, both unable to recover anyfiles.

Unable to rebuild boot sector, am i doing something wrong?

If i wanted to start from the get go, which log should i post first?