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Thanks for response.

I thought DDR rescue was a separate program. Will look at that.

So, apparently it isn't abnormal/unusual for testdisk to go on indefinitely without stopping.

Thanks for answering my question.

stevesr0

@ recuperation,

Thanks for response.

I put it into a new phone after stopping testdisk and the media files look intact.

HOWEVER, my question was about testdisk going on so long. Does it not have a built in method of stopping itself when it seems futile to continue?

stevesr0

Firstly, I am a novice (eg, ignoramus) about the proper use of testdisk. I only used it briefly years ago.

I used photorec to find files on an 32 GB SD card. It ran for a number of hours and then reported a goodly number of files, which it saved to a file on my computer.

Then I started teskdisk on ...

Great.

It would be nice if that point was made in the documentation.

Thanks again for the tool, the forum and the responses.

Steve

So, when I run testdisk and see all these nonexistent/potential partitions on quick search or deeper search, should I attempt to "delete" them by telling testdisk to rewrite the partition table?

If yes, how do you recommend that I do this since marking them "D" and confirming with "Y" doesn't ...

On the deeper search, it displays multiple extra partitions (10) and when I mark the 8 damaged ones for deletion and ask the program to write the change to the partition table, hit "Y" to confirm this and then quit test disk. After I reboot and rerun deeper search, the program still reports the same ...

Thanks for response.

I am trying to understand test disk better, partly because of my concerns about my hard drive and partly in order to give a presentation about it to our local Linux users group.

After the messages about I/o errors in the initial testdisk runs, I deleted the extended partition ...

But, why won't test disk delete the damaged partitions when I use the "wire" command?

I have tried this several times and on reboot, test disk again finds the same damaged partitions.

Thanks for comments and assistance.

Steve

Hi again,

I appreciate the advice about not needing to maintain an extended partition. Note that I DON'T have one at this time (nor a swap partition). Both fdisk and gparted report two partitions (an NTFS [Type 7] and a Linux [Tyoe 83]). Only testdisk is detecting problems with these partitions and ...

Hi again.

After using SpinRite, I ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness test on this hard drive. It found no errors with the drive.

I also tested using the smartmontools and again no problem was detected.

Then I backed up the files I care about.

Then, with Gparted (running from a live CD), I deleted the ...