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So I've re cloned the drive and am back at attempting to recover it.

I got into testdisk, did the standard steps to get to the analyse page (chose the 3000gb drive > gpt > analyse etc), started the quick search, stopped it, chose A to enter partition manually, and entered the start and end numbers ...

So I've had some partial progress, but still a failure. I successfully cloned my drive which took 10 hours.

But then this is where I may have messed up as i was on the phone talking to my linux knowledgable cousin.

In windows, the drive showed up as raw automatically assigned the letter f:

I went ...

Up till midnight last night and back at it a 5 this morning, mostly trying to understand and figure out how to run ddrescue. It wasn't too clear until I really got into it that it is just doing a bit for bit copy/clone. Most of the writing about it refers to file repairing and looking for errors on ...

from ADVANCED:

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msdata > ntfs gets me these numbers (same as after deep search without my drive name of DATA [i'd named the drive this when first setting up the drives. confusing now I know])

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with unfortunately the same result:

TD_list__.jpg ...

Ok, so after checking manual values entered again, (knowing them to be wrong) doing MS DATA > NTFS , on the next page where you select P to list files, at the bottom under "Enter: to continue__" it's showing "801GB/746 GiB"

which is the size the drive showed up as the first time I'd tried to use ...

I just realized that when I was manually entering the end sector number (5860532223) that the entry that resulted was similar to if not exactly the same as yours ostrichsak. In that I entered 5860532223 but upon pressing enter, the value that appears is 1565564927 (seen in your screen shot on pg 2 ...

Oh Joy of Joy's! So I ended up quitting instead of writing, and did the start quick search > stop > series of steps to be able to list my files.

Got the boot sector is bad message, though the backup bootsector is OK

And from there eventually got the exact same error message as the OP that "the ...

I think I had mentioned in my first attempted post which didn't get posted that (I think this was in the previous step) I pressed P but didn't see a huge list of files, only a number indicating the size of the data which was about 5.8gb I think when I should have had 1.8TB or so.

Is there a way I ...

Thanks for that, would it be advisable to proceed as I don't currently have a cloned backup of this damaged drive. At the time of posting I had no means to create one, but have since obtained a drive and was about to begin. I figure it will take several days once that's started to get back to the ...

Forgot to add a screenshot. Here's where I'm at now and as you can see the numbers came up exactly the same as the OP so I'm concerned I might screw things up if I proceed as this is considerably less in size then my drive was. This was purely a data storage drive, not partitioned at all, GPT, NTFS ...