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Thanks for your response. Yes, it is file structure problem, $MFT and $MFTMirr are damaged (or overwritten) and most probably big disk fragmentation. These two issues causes recovery software to no be able to do any recovery. I have tried over 15 different professional and semi-professional recovery ...

It is sad that there is no one here to help.

Thank you for your response. I have done what you have suggested and got "No file found".
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There was stored some mkv files on that disk, so I have done a hex (low level) search within disk and found many entries which makes me think that there is still a chance ...

If "boot sector diagnose" means doing these steps ([Create] -> Select disk -> [Proceed] -> Select partition table (GPT in my case) -> [Advanced] -> Select partition (2nd in my case) -> [Type] -> [Proceed] -> Select partition type (NTFS in my case) -> [Proceed] -> [Boot] -> [Dump]) then here is the ...

My disk is internal (WD 3TB RED).
I use HDD docking station (SATDOCKU3E) to connect it to my laptop.

How to do a boot sector diagnose?
Also, how to make a proper copy of current disk? I will get another exactly the same disk soon. How to be sure that my current system will not corrupt already ...

Some updates:
1 update. To do a Quick Search I have used a Live CD. TestDisk was able to recognize 3 TB plugged via eSata. The speed of Quick Search was almost 10 times faster. So here are the results:
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TestDisk has found 5 ...

My WD 3TB HDD has failed after 425 hours of operation. I was connecting it via docking station which has eSata and USB 3.0, I was mainly using eSata because of higher transfer speeds.
Once I looked for size of one folder on that HDD and Windows showed 0 Bytes, I have reconnected HDD and after that I ...