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Hi.
Yes I ran photorec to copy off of the faulty drive to the new drive.

How do I fix the logical errors of the copied files?

As a newbie what are the steps for recovering my drive from a high level?

Clone faulty 4tb USB drive to new 4tb drive?
Recover new 4tb drive to another 4tb drive?
Can I ...

Another update. Tried to continue the disk to disk copy with ddrescue but it didn't seem to be installed any longer. I'm not familiar with Fedora or the application but I could find no trace of the application or of any log files. I couldn't work out how to start the process from where I left off ...

Thanks for your quick replies, really appreciated.

Point taken on missing out information at the start of the thread, with that in mind let me give you the full background in case I've not mentioned anything relevant.

I had a plex media server running on a Ubuntu Server VM (ESXi host). All the ...

Sorry for the flood of updates, but I managed to find some time to work on the and am making the most of it.
I tried rebuilding the boot sector, but this didn't work. It spent a while working through the disk looking for ... something ... but came back and reported the boot sector and backup boot ...

Hi,

As an update, when booting from the Fedora USB, I skipped the media check and Fedora started. I'm writing this update from Firefox within Fedora, so some progress :)
I'm going to read through the PDF and see if I can use TestDisk in Windows to recover the destination disk from the disk to disk ...

Hi.

It's not the boot order, somehow the USB or the OS has become corrupted. When I try and boot I get the error

The media check is complete, the result is : FAIL.

I think though that this is a side issue. I can recreate the Fedora USB but its the disk to disk copy I need help with. Is there a ...

Hi, I followed the process to create the clone, creating a USB stick with Fedora and got the disk to disk copy going. It was running for over 16 days and got to 85%, then I got an error which seems OS related.

Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

I had to reboot ...

Hi,
I'm new to this forum (new to forums in general), but I'm reaching out for some help.
I've got a failing USB hard drive which has photos, music, videos from my phone and movies, previously was in use for my media server. I've tried various clone and recovery tools, the only one that's worked so ...