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Yeah, it was target drive I was referring to, and ‘twas the TestDisk option to write partition table that made me wonder if it was necessary.
The company that I got quote from is https://apextechnology.co.uk/
Credentials look good and Howard, the Director, has answered my emails promptly and ...

Aye, drive definitely is deteriorating, TD has been picking up all three partitions with a quick search, but last time needed a deep search to find the third. You’re dead right, it’s time to call in the pros, I’ve been quoted £290 on a no recovery-no fee basis (+media to put it on if I can’t provide ...

Thought it was too good to be true, TestDisk been working on this image for 22 hours now and is only at 0.17%. Obviously impractical, would take over 500 days at this rate! Opinions as to course of action would be appreciated.
Thanks

Perhaps I was too impatient, but I ran ddrescue, it started its initial scan and 5 hours later it was still scanning, and I aborted it. I haven’t tried anything specifically to read SMART, but Disc Health on PM and other things say it’s not available. I don’t think there is physical damage, not ...

Thanks for the input BCS, yup I did my best to make sure permissions etc were Ok, and copied test files to the prepared destination. I’ve fired up PMagic, tried ddrescue but aborted it after five or six hours of it scanning so didn’t get past the start line. TestDisk/PhotoRec has been the only thing ...

Hi,
Many thanks for quick reply, I was aware of limitations of FAT32, partition was formatted NTFS, to match the dying disk. I thought it might have something to do with block size, but fsinfo shows 512 bytes/sector and 4096 bytes/physical sector which looks right. Is it essential to write the ...

HI, Help please,
Newbie & ancient duffer trying to recover files from 500gb hd, with apparently 465gb used. with, according to chkdsk a bad "uppercase file table". I created a 520gb partition for the image but when I try to create image, I get "not enough space left". How much space do I need for a ...