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Hello again.

Please help me understand the following:

If the original disk is 2 TB, ddrescue finishes the pass entirely, and has only 24mb of errors, shouldn't I have at least 2 TB minus 24mb of data?

The ddrescue to the image file ran for ~6 days. During this time, the error size dropped from ...

Hello and thank you.

Regarding your questions:

[1] User did not elaborate on why he suspected a power surge.

[2]"He declined." What? Having bitten into the hard drive? <-- I failed to elaborate in my original post. He declined Windows's suggestion to format the disk when trying a USB enclosure ...

Hello. Thank you for both approving the topic, and replying. I greatly appreciate your expertise.

To the best of the user's knowledge, the drive was not encrypted. Knowing what I do about him, it likely was not. This was just an ordinary home PC. Did something I mentioned in the original post ...

Hello everyone,

I am really struggling with recovery of a failed 2TB hard drive. Usually testdisk works "turn-key" for me, but not this time, and I'm seeking help from more experienced users who know what's really going on.

The user believes he had a power surge. Windows now says the drive is ...