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recuperation wrote: 29 Apr 2022, 20:51 The safest thing is to use Testdisk to copy the content to another location - this is the process that you already started.

Recuperation,

ALL FILES WITH FILNAMES AND FOLDERS RECOVERED!!

YOU ARE A GENIUS AND A LIFESAVER!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

Running TestDisk Copy process now; will report back when done.

Hi again, so following the step-by-step, I displayed files in the first partition shown in the previous post 0427-604pm screenshot, and there were all my folders! So I went back and changed the status to Primary (only choices were D or P, no L), left the other partitions as D and wrote the partition ...

Hi, TestDisk just completed quick search. Tried to attach log file but not showing up in attachments, so here it is:

Sun Apr 24 09:57:26 2022
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2022
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS ...

Hi,

The drive is a Toshiba Canvio external USB drive, connected to Dell Win7 laptop blue "SS" USB port which is supposedly 3.0 capable, but the drive is quite old so probably only 2.0.

I was running smartmontools with the 'smartctl (Admin CMD)' shortcut it created. Just to be sure, I ran CMD as ...

But my hint was based on your misleading speed information.
I told you to do the math to calculate the time needed to run across your disk but you simply ignored my last posting.


Hi, didn't mean to ignore your post, and not sure what you meant by misleading speed information, my TestDisk DID ...

Use ddrescue (Linux software) as described in the manual to duplicate the FULL drive onto another drive that is at least as big as your Toshiba disk.


Does it have to be ddrescue? The only 'Linux' machine I have at the ready is a Raspberry Pi 3 and I'm not very fluent with it. I can't use a ...

Thank you for your fast reply and directions!


You did not specify if you repartitioned your Toshiba disk before the incident happen. How many partitions do you expect to find?
If there is just one, trying to recover something out of 350 GB when the whole partition is 3 TB is a bad idea.


I had ...

Hi, thanks in advance, and please pardon the multiple-topic new question. I'm a total data recovery newbie, pretty sure I need filesystem repair, not sure if I also need partition recovery, don't want to waste another week doing the wrong thing.

3TB Toshiba Canvio external USB drive used for file ...