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Final two screen grabs:

Hi everyone, I think I've made some progress but would appreciate any further advice. The attached captures which are named in sequence are the steps I've taken. Obviously the final one is the concern. I went back to the advanced menu and tried undelete which did not work.

Do I have any further ...

I seem to be going round in circles a little bit. I ran testdisk on /dev/sdb which created the file image.dd which was an identical size to /dev/sdb. I then ran testdisk on ./image.dd which started the image preparation process again, as if it was going to make an image of image.dd

I was also ...

Thank you. It's begun creating the image file image.dd - presumably I will need to run testdisk on the image file when it's been copied and see what turns up. I'll revert if necessary. Thanks again.

Hi there. I searched exhaustively for luks but didn't find anything that addresses my particular tale of woe.

I have a 3TB external USB3 drive which had a single NTFS partition (although I believe windows slips in a hidden partition before the first one). Quite inexcusably I applied the following ...