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ok, seeing as you recommend knoppix to everyone regardless of their problem im going to assume you didnt even read my logfile..

did i do anything i should not have or is that advice for the future?

if in any case testdisk can't do anything and you know of other routes to try, please let me know. at this point i'm concerned about the data but have accepted that i may have lost it- on the other hand i'm enjoying learning about this process, so if there's something else i can i do to continue i'd ...

that's the size of an advanced format sector, isn't it? i don't know, maybe that will help.

ddrescue could not save 4096 bytes of the drive. i did retry passes with no luck.

ok i ran ddrescue. i did not try and wipe the new drive beforehand and just overwrote, i hope that is not a problem. here is the log from running testdisk on the new drive.

Hard disk list
Disk /dev/disk0 - 121 GB / 113 GiB - 236978176 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/disk2 - 2000 GB / 1862 ...

thanks. i kind of figured the i/o errors were bad news but i thought i'd post a log just in case. i guess the boot sector-related errors got my hopes up

i plugged my 2tb western digital my passport (fat32, one partition) into a friend's windows xp computer tonight. the computer could not read the drive, and my mac can't either now. here's the log from testdisk & a screenshot.

Hard disk list
Disk /dev/disk0 - 121 GB / 113 GiB - 236978176 sectors (RO ...