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But it was not a 250GB drive. I had a 32GB micro SD card. I don't know why Testdisk said it was 250GB. You suggested it was a hardware issue with the card and to use ddrescue. I used ddrescue to make an image of the 32GB card and somehow was able to get information back from the image. I definitely ...

No, what I meant was that the second post was after I ran ddrescue, as you had suggested. I then ran PhotoRec and Testdisk on the image.

Thanks, using ddrescue as described and then running PhotoRec helped me find 862 files. On a separate note, trying with brute force enabled generated a large 800+ MB jpg file before I stopped it.

Testdisk said no partition was found--log as follows--and I did not have the energy to bother digging ...

I have a 32GB micro SD card that someone else was using and at one point had several hundred or thousand files (jpg/avi) on it. Since I was not the one using it, I do not know if it was accidentally formatted or if some error occurred during use, but I do know that all these old files disappeared ...