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ASMT 2115 is most likely not the model. This seems to be rather an USB/SATA interface circuit.

yes, it is a SATA HGST Z5K500-500 (hopefully this is the model).

It used to be an internal HDD of an ASUS laptop.

I don't know. Your log file does not mention the manufacturer and the model of your 500 GB.
I guess it is a HDD, in case of being a SSD the SSD can be broken but allowing read operations.

Yes, it is a HDD, labelled as ASMT 2115. The manifacturer is HGST.

If you can see files in there, the ...

Finally, I tried to operate on the physical disk.

I tried BackupBS.

This is the screen I get when analysing the boot sector

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and this is what I get after choosing to copy the backup boot record

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Is there something I could do ...

I would like to try to use testdisk or photorec to recover files from a tablet (android 12).

I found this old discussion

https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=6007&sid=ce00b41e30467e148a1b1fbf725fc79f#p6007

but I cannot enable USB Mass Storage on the tablet in this way; I enabled ...

Thank you very much, I apologise for the late answer.

Please post your TestDisk logfile and the length of your clone file.

I did not analysed the disk before, I did it now, but I stopped it at some point because the file was bigger than 512Kib and I was afraid to damage further the hd.

Here is ...

Thank you very much.

The page states:
[... Overview ... By default, the image files are mounted as read only so that the original image files are not altered. OSFMount supports mounting disk image files as read/write in "write cache" mode. This stores all writes to a "write cache" (or "delta ...

Instead of using dd which works well with flawless disks you should have used ddrescue instead as recommended in the TestDisk manual.
After cloning with dd I guess you have no information about the outcome of the cloning process whereas ddrescue provides you with a summary screen that you can copy ...

I am trying to repair an originally internal hard disk (now in an external case) which cannot be open anymore.

When operating testdisk on the physical disk, choosing the advanced option, I get the following screen:

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and, selecting the [Boot] option,

Screenshot ...

Thank you very much.


An image or clone of a disk should be exactly as big as its source. Above you describe trying to create an image of a disk with a size of 1 TB, then you complain that the result is "remarkably smaller than 2 TB". Well, honestly, the result should be 1 TB in size. You sound ...

I am trying to create an image of a 1TB Samsung M3 HD on a 4TB TOSHIBA HD, so to try to understand if I can repair the disk, which has a Boot sector OK, MFT Ok but cannot be opened under Windows and is seen as empty under Ubuntu,

When choosing Image creation in the Advanced section, the program ...