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You are right, well I didn't know much and in this process, I actually learned a lot.
I can't afford to send the drive to a recovery centre, and in the beginning I also panicked. I never used Linux for that long but now I am running Linux Mint for straight two months, learned many linux tricks and ...

Hello

In short, I copied my 2TB HDD to a new 4TB HDD, and then the data from first copy copied to second 4TB HDD with ddrescue. And the idea was to recover the partitions or data. Original drive was used in windows as a storage drive, and accidentally formatted in live linux to ext4, but no data ...

Your drive is about to die. Until now I have never seen so many reallocated and pending sectors, the former maximum was an estimated 12000 on a collegue's laptop drive.
Please duplicate the drive as described in the Testdisk manual. When duplicating to a disk instead of a file you might need the ...

Update:

I did close TestDisk, it wasn't closing easily. Either I pressed Q repeatedly or Ctrl C, that worked. I noticed the HDD is now making a double click sound which I never heard before. The sound is not a really "clicking" sound but something double dub dub.

Anyway, I will search first how to ...

Another thing:

Is there a safe way to stop TestDisk? Shall I just close the terminal in which it is running?

I read in the manual, [16.5 ddrutility: restricting ddrescue to NTFS allocated data block]

can we use this so we can just try recovering the NTFS partitions?

I have a 4TB HDD, that I ...

Thanks.

I think you mean ddrescue.

ok, I am looking at how to use ddrescue now.

PS. Since the Testdisk is running, I cannot access my other drives connected to the system.

Thanks for your kind reply.
With slow, I meant, the scan is progressing by maximum 2% per day and after more than a week (I think), today it reached 21%. Maybe this is just normal as it is deep scan, but I have no idea.

Below is the smartmontools report:

smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64 ...

Dear experts
A little bit of background of my problem:
A few months ago, one of my 2TB Seagate HDD suddenly failed without any warning or clicking sounds. Windows 10 refused to start when the HDD was connected to the system. I removed the HDDs (three at that time) one by one, and when I removed this ...