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Sorry I didn't see your reply, yes I will give it a try.


Here is an update, everything in this post was performed on the ddrescue image clone of the hard disk.


I tried fsck:
$ sudo fsck.vfat -n -f mybook.img
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
Logical sector size (64543 bytes) is not a multiple of the ...

I'm on linux so that would be have to fsck, right?

After running "Repair MFT" in TestDisk I received this message:

This is an update:

I used ddrescue to clone the disk to another drive as an image file, it only has been one pass. Since it was the first pass I didn't use the -r option. There were zero errors.

Just to be cautious a few questions before moving on:

Since there were no errors there is no reason to ...

I appreciate the help so far, it will take me a while to try this so I have a few questions before I start this process.

If I remember correctly I started TestDisk as:"testdisk" but then with sudo as prompted by TestDisk, I think it shows in the log. Do I need to run "su" first and then run ...

Here is the testdisk log file:



Mon Mar 2 16:04:56 2026
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 6.12.73+deb13-amd64 (#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.73-1 (2026-02-17 ...

The images are now links, hopefully this is better.

(Edit: images are posted as links, hopefully this works better)

Hello, I'm hoping I can recover my external drive which has files important to me. Any help is appreciated.

OS: Debian 13 - Gnome
Hard Drive trying to recover: External USB HDD - 4TB WD MyBook - NTFS

What happened: The drive was ...