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By chunks, I just meant possibly splitting the contents of it into portions since my largest storage device is another 4TB drive; I don't have anything large enough to hold a 4TB copy of my dying HDD.

If I am going to use ddrescue on a 4TB drive, will I need a full 4TB on another drive to copy the data? Can I split the process up into chunks?

Here is the log. I made sure to use disk management to get the right drive letter/number and confirmed the serial number on the drive.

I disconnected the HDD and reconnected it and now it is registering all 4TB, I will follow the tutorial on your wiki and see what progress I can make.

EDIT - it also defaulted to the Intel type of partition. Could 3.5/4 TB not appearing and then appearing be indicative of hardware degradation ...

Even when I zip it the file is too large, so here is the first part:

Fri May 6 19:29:44 2022
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2022
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 11.2, Cygwin 3001.4 ...

My external HDD recently stopped being accessible via windows, and checkdisk indicated that it had "RAW" formatting. I am hoping to pull some files off of it before it completely dies. The drive is a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB model from about 10 years ago.

I ran testdisk and came across 2 issues. The ...