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recuperation wrote: 15 Apr 2022, 11:20 Where, please?

Oh, you meant where in the documentation.

In the troubleshooting guide: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

We're about 3 layers deeper into hard drive theory than I actually know, so it's entirely possible my understanding is faulty.
The way I understand hard drive tables working, there is some form of initial data pack at the beginning of the drive that says how big the drive is, manufacture data, ect ...

Cylinder 60 I think it was.
Ran it again, haven't gotten the cylinder error, but this is where it seems to be stuck:
https://i.imgur.com/ChMPu9g.png
What software is currently recommended for the copy?
I tried a few but they don't pull it up.

To rephrase my original question, are partition ...

I have a 5tb seagate drive which got deallocated. It has 2 partitions, one is NTFS and is 4.5tb, one is Fat32 and 500mb.
Running Testdisk pulls up the main partition, but freezes halfway through investigating the second with a cylinder error.
The documentation says not to write partition until all ...