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I have never seen such an empty SMART report.
You could try to duplicate the drive using ddrescue. By looking at the ddrescue command prompt style you will quickly see if ddrescue works or if it hangs on certain sectors.

But I guess you will probably need professional assistance.


I think this ...

recuperation wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 13:57 Please try again using the most recent Photorec version "7.2 WIP".

To get a quick overview on possible health issues of your drive post your smartmontools log file:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10910

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recuperation wrote: 23 Feb 2022, 16:27 And what is your Photorec version?

The version I use = "PhotoRec 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019.

Yes I am using a separate disk for the "recup_dir.##" files

I am using a 4Tb disk (USB) and had no problems with reading and writing in the past.

Hello I am running Photorec against a 4Tb NTFS disk to retrieve JPG and MPG with file option JPG an MPG on Ubuntu 20.04.
At a disk with no problems I just want to retrieve deleted pictures
Now I see on
date 2022-02-18 Pass 1 - Reading sector 444548496/2930272002, 10596 files found. Elapsed time ...