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You can pass that file as an argument to Testdisk.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.


My first sentence refers to the duplicate of your drive that you created as a file and not as a direct disc to disc copy.
My second sentence ...

Why are you refering to the ddrescue log file now?
In your posting you were talking about the duplicate that you created as an image file.


You were talking about log in your previous post so I copied info from DDRescue log here, maybe it was not what you were talking about?
For me the most ...

You can pass that file as an argument to Testdisk.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.


If you have this log in mind, there it is:
# Mapfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.23
# Command line: ddrescue -d -r 3 /dev/sdc /media/mint ...

(CrystalDiskInfo shows that everything's alright with it) :roll:

Even though I don't understand every attribute I would recommend you duplicating the drive using ddrescue as described in the manual.


Thank you. I created the image using DDRescue in almost 11 hours, it completely finished and ...

Please provide a smartmontools log file.

https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=31986#p31986


Results:

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-20H2] (sf-7.2-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION ...

I connected my old HDD via SATA to USB adadpter to my laptop.

What kind of connection is that?
Where does the power come from?

A docking station or an externally powered case with a USB or eSata connector would be nice.


I'm using this one: https://www.unitek-products.com/products/usb-3-0 ...

recuperation wrote: 08 Jan 2021, 17:24 There are many harddisks from Seagate. Especially when you include old models. Which information am I looking for?

Here's the exact model: Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002.

I connected my old HDD via SATA to USB adadpter to my laptop.

Which hard disk?

The Seagate 500 GB one I used in my PC for about 8 years with no problems (CrystalDiskInfo shows that everything's alright with it). But the motherboard died so I wanted to recover all my files from that disk to ...

Hello everyone.
Didn't find the topic with this specific problem so created a new one.

I connected my old HDD via SATA to USB adadpter to my laptop. Windows can't access this drive because it says it's a dynamic disk (invalid). I tried TestDisk to attempt recover my very needed files but the only ...