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It's hot because I'm running testdisk disk imaging but looking at some post stating that it might actually kill the drive faster so I aborted it.

Recovery is secondary and if unrecoverable it would be great if the disk is permanently unrecoverable.

However from what you said it seems that its ...

Hi recuperation,

smartmontools as follow

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Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD40NMZW-11GX6S1
Serial Number: WD-WX61D583RE78
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 0af3a0601
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 4,000,753 ...

I have a 4tb that is currently not responding to windows explorer but can be found in
-safely remove hardware
-disk management (not initialised, not allocated)

I've tried using testdisk, quick analyse takes too long and only gives me fat32, I went to advanced and chosed efi, ntfs.

Partition table ...