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Just use photorec to recover the files, is it just jpg files you want to recover?

Hi Jackdup

Generally you don't get a response if nobody has any experience with your issues. What I would do in your position is first create an image of your disk (so you can restore it if things go wrong), then simply experiment with testdisk (you could first do some tests on a USB device until ...

since I've started to hear crunching noise from the computer indicating the declining health of the HDD.

Youch! There is symptomatic of a significant mechanical problem with the hard drive.

So after trying to tolerate it for a few days,

Ummm...not good. If you get a whiff of a mechanical ...

Either put photorec.exe in your path (e.g \Windows\System32) and invoke with:
photorec.exe /log

OR

cd to where your executable is and invoke with:
photorec.exe /log


Stumpy

ag25 wrote: The results are the same when running PhotoRec directly from the physical drive.

Ah! This indicates that there are surface errors on your physicial drive. You need to use ddrescue to image the drive, then run photorec.

Stumpy

Am reading between the lines here, but I think I see your problem. You wanted to make a clone of the disk (put the 1st sector of your damaged disk on the 1st sector of your new drive). Am guessing that you have sent the clone to the 1st partition of your new drive but then running testdisk against ...

Hi,

My 1.5 TB HD died and turned RAW

Not sure what you are saying here - generally a dead hard drive won't spin up and you won't be able to copy it. What do you mean by the disk turning "RAW"? Was this disk the one containing your O/S or a storage drive? What were the symptoms when you tried to ...

What O/S are you using? What version of photorec are you using? What have you tried so far? You just simply append the /log switch when invoking photorec from the command line...

It's not a good idea to cross post with two different problems.

ekarden - As the admin says, it looks like your original media has a major defect, you will need to go to a specialist data recovery company to sort this out.

ag25 - It looks as there may be some surface errors on your drive holding ...

Just a quick tip for the photorec community. I have been able to recover files from just unallocated space on a HFS+ file system using xmount + photorec.

The latest version of xmount (available here: https://www.pinguin.lu/ ) allows a user to mount just the unallocated space in a file system. AFAIK ...