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Hi,

One thing I came across running Photorec recently. The disk I was running Photorec on had about 2.5TB of free space at the end of it (never used and so all zeroes), because it was largely unfragmented. Somewhere just before that free space, I assume it found a header matching .tar.gz files. But ...

Just a quick note - I too was originally using 7.1. That's the version currently available in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories. You'll probably get a lot of people like myself and OP using 7.1 until it gets pushed downstream.

(The statically linked 7.2 version I used worked great though)

Well after several attempts, I can't manage to rebuild the partition table. Testdisk found a few dozen "partitions" actually, because there's disk images on the failed HD. But alas, none of them were the one I was looking for. Zeroing out the beginning of the disk and hoping Testdisk would default ...

I hope you mean "recover" because "operating" means regular use including writing. The TestDisk home page https://www.cgsecurity.org/ only specifies Linux raid configurations when dealing with RAID structures. You did not provide any additional information about your RAID.
It's raid1, a simple ...

Apologies, I forgot to attach the log - but I now realize I can't post attachments or edit the original post.

Hello, I'm hoping to get some technical guidance.

The other day I accidentally pointed DD (yeah, I know...) at an external 6TB storage array, with dd if=memtest86.img of=/dev/sdi conv=sync It should have been /dev/sdj. Upon realizing the error, I aborted the overwrite. The memtest86.img image is ...