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by TraitorVic
28 Jan 2024, 01:01
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I Messed Up
Replies: 4
Views: 3836

Re: I Messed Up

Yep… That's what I thought the report suggested.

At least TestDisk helped me to recover some of the most important files that are on a Dying Disk!

Thank you so much for your assistance and advice.
by TraitorVic
27 Jan 2024, 04:28
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I Messed Up
Replies: 4
Views: 3836

Re: I Messed Up

Thanks so much for that information!

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-22H2] (sf-7.4-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

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Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
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by TraitorVic
26 Jan 2024, 05:05
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I Messed Up
Replies: 4
Views: 3836

I Messed Up

I'm dealing with a Western Digital 5TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive that stopped functioning a bit over a year ago. It is about 4/5 full with a single partition.

Learned of TestDisk only this year and decided to give (TestDisk-7.2-WIP) it a shot. When I first tried to access the drive I ...