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I just repeated this as Administrator using Cygwin 1.7 (downloaded a few days ago) in Windows XP, and it behaved the same way. Administrator would be the same thing as root, correct?

I also tried with OSX console ddrescue 1.16. It got to the same location (167051 kb) before it started encountering ...

so ddrescue went nuts and i have no idea what is going on with it.

I am still having problems.

I tried different USB cables on the original hard drive in the original WB My Book enclosure. This did not change anything. I bought a new circuit board, with an identical part number, off of eBay and tried that as well. This still has not helped.

Testdisk continues to ...

I returned the original drive to the original WD enclosure. When I open disk utility, I get this message:
http://i.imgur.com/fbv0Kov.png
I chose not to initialize, and you can see that it shows as 1826.99 GB unallocated.

When I ran TestDisk, I chose to analyze as "EFI GPT" as suggested by the ...

reading around, i see that the WD MyBook could be hardware encrypted. should i put it back in the original enclosure? i was unable to clone the disk with dd_rescue from that enclosure because it would disconnect within minutes.

I tried an "Intel" partition table type with no success, though it went much faster.

I thought this part looked hopeful because it looks correct:

Current partition structure:
1 P EFI GPT 0 0 2 25 127 14 409639

Bad relative sector.
No HFS or HFS+ structure
2 P HFS 25 127 15 224946 227 25 ...

Hi,

I am attempting to recover the partitions from an external hard drive that I was experiencing problems with. The disk originally came packaged as a WD MyBook 2TB. I was experiencing I/O errors and random disconnections, so I moved the disk to a new USB enclosure. I then cloned the disk to a ...