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After hours and hours scanning the entire disk, I have this log:

Starting a new topic from this => https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=13154

In this topic, I will try to put as much information as I can about my problem, to see if you can help me.
Thank you anyway so far.
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I have an external hard disk, Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive, with ...

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I'm going to open a new topic, putting as much information as I can about my problem, to see if you can help me.

Thank you anyway so far.

Starting again the process, testdisk say to me that both partitions are irretrievable...

Should I give up on testing? Can I try something different from what has already been tried?

I confess that I am desperate and I didn't expect to lose this data.

Hello...
I did a new scan on my hard disk and found this information...
From here, what should I do?
I ran the commands shown above, but I was unsuccessful.


TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024




TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024
Christophe GRENIER <grenier ...

You should use an alternate superblock.


Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing right now, running them one by one until the end...
The repeated superblocks should be identical. Having run one repair command linux will assumably require disconnecting and reconnecting the external disk. Running ...

Nothing...

Only 1 folder is showed, nothing more...

I will analyze the entire hard disk again, with the difference of changing the USB cable, but this cable is fine, I have already used it with other hard disks.

Very SAD!!!

Now, the filesystem was repaired using alternates superblock as we can see below>


rodrigo@SonyVaio-VGN-NW270F:~$ sudo fsck.ext4 -p -b 0 -B 4096 /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: clean, 16/183148544 files, 11784420/732566389 blocks
rodrigo@SonyVaio-VGN-NW270F:~$ sudo fsck.ext4 -p -b 32768 -B 4096 /dev/sdb1 ...

You should use an alternate superblock.


Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing right now, running them one by one until the end...

When I get to the end of all the superblocks, do you recommend that I restart my computer or issue another command?
It will still take a while to finish checking all ...

Hello...

I started by analyzing the possibly damaged disk.
I looked for folders or files that could be recovered in the disk structure.
At the end of the analysis, I received the posted recommendation and when I searched the internet for how to run the disk, I came across this message>

rodrigo ...