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Hi
Yes you mean ddrescue

I started it and just let it be.
Checking it now. It is stuck:
Current rate: 0 B/s
Non-tried: 1000 GB
Bad sector: 512 B
Time since last successful reads: 3d etc

The manual says "If the main boot sector is damaged, the filesystem is listed as raw or unreadable"
So next ...

Hi

Image creation failed.
Image file is 50 MB.

The log is 8 MB full of this:
file_win32_pread(536,1,buffer,4776192(297/77/37)) read err: read after end of file

Please suggest next step

<t>Hi<br/>
I couldn't find anything in the manual about how to create an image.<br/>
But I found it in the application.<br/>
Its been working 8h now and has reached 0.7%. This is of course taking too long.<br/>
<br/>
Should we work on the original disk instead?<br/>
What is the next step?<br/>
<br ...

Hi

I found a script: update-smart-drivedb.ps1
This is what I get after running the script and then create report:

Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5301

I will try to find time today to do the image

Hi

When you say "duplicate" what exactly do you mean and in which manual?
Here https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf ?
You mean I should create a disk image?

This is report from Smartmontools. Please comment if it contains something useful

Device Model: PNY PRO ELITE PSSD
Firmware Version ...

I really messed up my external ssd.
Disk management says raw.
When trying to "List and copy files", nothing recovered, only error.

Any chance that I can recover any files?


Stuff from the log:

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - PNY PNY PRO ELITE PS ...