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But the contents of the hidden partition are still not accessible. It is mounted, but Testdisc doesn't see anything there.
There was a similar story here viewtopic.php?p=26147#p26147 and the person didn't find a solution

I will try to explain, but if there is anything unclear please ask again.

In the beginning, I took my Portable SSD 2T and allocated 500GB for TrueCrypt storage, and further, this 500GB was divided into 55GB Hidden Partition and the rest 445GB Regular Partition.

I did the copy operation in two ways ...

Current log file





Fri Aug 25 11:14:41 2023
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, February 2023
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 11.2, Cygwin32 3001.4
ext2fs lib: 1.45.3, ntfs lib: 10:0:0 ...

I originally put the partition on a Samsung T5 portable ssd (#1), but when the crash happened, I copied everything to the internal ssd (#2) for backup. So now I do all my manipulations with the internal ssd (#2)

I also tried FAT32
FAT16
exFAT
I'm not sure if I should try rebild in these cases..

At the time I created these partitions I was running Windows Server 2012. Now I looked at the main partition (not hidden) it is mounted as NTFS, so most likely the file system was similar. But then, when selecting "NTFS", it gives the following:

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then I select "Rebuild BS" and then I get ...

Thanks for the details on clarifying these points! As you said, I made a copy of the disk image.dd
Next, I choose "None", but the next step prompts me to choose a partition type. I'm not sure I remember exactly what the partition type is for it. Should I try FAT32 first, then try NTFS, then ext2 ...

Yeah, sorry, I didn't see that option.

Please forgive me for my poor knowledge on this topic, even though I've been trying to learn this for the last hard week. This forum is the last place for my desperation for data recovery. I've been using TrueCrypt for many years and everything was fine until a sudden power outage when my laptop was ...