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What's or operating system? Which version of Testdisk do you run? Which settings do you use? Try to document what you do.


Windows 10, 21H2
TestDisk 7.2-WIP

running: testdisk_win.exe e:\image.dd

selected the disk e:\image.dd when prompted
Partition table type -> None
Selected the partition ...

Whenever I try use TestDisk to recover specific directories from the ddrescue'd image, some copy fine, some fail (as expected) but it literally just gets stuck and I'm just not sure how to proceed with it. No progress once it it hits some bad corruption, I guess. Is there a flag or something to skip ...

I was able to ddrescue the drive into a file. Do you think there's a way to recover and keep (most of) the file structure intact with TestDisk? I know PhotoRec just gives you everything in an unstructured format.

Hi, I have an external drive here that went RAW. I'm able to use TestDisk to explore the files, but there's a bunch of junk folders/files with random chinese characters. I'm guessing that's corruption of some sorts.

Analyze/Deep Search does not find partitions. any tips? I'd rather not manually ...