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The search is completed:

https://i.imgur.com/BJLATEF.png

Testdisk found 102 "partitions" all labeled the same [data], but i cannot do anything with those, :(
I can only continue, then he lists the two previous found partions and some "boot" and "MS" ones.
Upon selecting one, i only get back to ...

The analyse again did return the two partitions, but i could not open it to browse files.
So now the deep search is running almost 3 hours now; a quick screenshot before i really need to go to bed:

https://i.imgur.com/harUeoK.gif

Don't know, the error msg seem off; i guess it came formated for ...

Hello recuperation, immediately after i realized the new Linux-Installer created a new swap on my backup-hdd,
i made a copy of the whole hdd with dd. testdisk was only used with that created image.
- e.g. testdisk /run/media/bbig/Seagate Expansion Drive/sda_recovery2.img -

You have an idea already ...

Hello, maybe a short version - TLDR; - at the start:

On an installation my 4TB backup-drive was mounted and a new "swap-partition" was created. Testdisk finds two partitions which overleap; my "old ext4 data" along with the new swap.
All screenshots of gparted and testdisk in a [ dead link removed ...