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My setup is a 250GB SSD with the filesystem and home directory with a secondary 500GB SSD for storage. The main drive is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with LUKS encryption.
Which drive is your "main drive"? I don't understand which drive you want to recover.

I have another machine set up with Ubuntu + LUKS ...

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Just a quick annotation, they increased the number of ECC bytes from 50 per sector with 512 bytes to 100 for a sector with 4096 bytes in size.
What Seagate and Western Digital try to sell us is the increase of efficiency. They do not mention that the new sector size was eightfold whereas the the ...

When running "hdparm -i /dev/sdx" (replace the "x" as needed) it shows you the sector size. If it yields different results with and without enclosure you know that some converting process is going on in the interface.

I noticed in the man pages that the -i flag only provides information from the ...

CHS only plays a role in legacy operating systems. You did not name the operating systems you used.

You're right? But it was in the log file? Edit: I normally include an inxi -F with support requests. I don't know why I forgot this time. My bad. I did say that I was trying to recover from the ...

So in the end, TestDisk did not end up working for me. I do appreciate ddrescue being pointed out to me though. I will probably use it in the future when/if I ever need to recover files, but will probably stick with dd for most of my imaging needs, as I'm much more comfortable with it for now ...

Thank you very much again for your generosity with your time and the detailed reply.

I took this new hard drive out of the case and to my surprise it was an identical model to the internal drive that I had already purchased. The external one had the bonus of being cheaper too, it's not far away in ...

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, Novembre 2020
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sda - 10000 GB / 9313 GiB - CHS 9537535 64 32

The harddisk (10000 GB / 9313 GiB) seems too small! (< 17238299 TB / 15678142 TiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD ...

If your disk was not enclosed in a case with sector size converting electronics GPT is the right mode for this 10 TB drive.

So now I have a question. I'm copying a 10TB disk that was never used in the enclosure (internal disk located at /dev/sda) to a USB 3.0 external drive that IS in an ...

I'm reading gdisk documentation from https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/repairing.html while I wait for the EFI/GPT quick scan to complete. It says under recovery a few things that look relevant to my situation. I'm thinking that I have a broken EFI/GPT because the disk in question is 10 TB and the ...