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Photorec completed with no errors this time! Looks like it worked. Thanks so much for all of your help!!

After about 50 hours, ddrescue finally finished. I decided to try the --dco-restore option this morning, but it returned an error. HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(dco_restore) failed: Input/output error.

Not sure where to go from here? I just need Photorec to see the correct size drive (2TB) so I can get on with ...

Before going any further, I decided to make an image of the drive using ddrescue to a second drive. This will allow me to get a little more adventurous with my recovery approach :D. 2TB might take a while though.

After it's done, is there any chance Photorec will recognize the image size correctly ...

Running hdparm -N /dev/sda2 gives me:
max sectors = 3907029168/3907029168, HPA is disabled However, when I run photorec I get: Hidden sectors are present
size: 3906820096
User_max: 3907029168
Native_max: 18446744073321613488
Host protected area (HPA) present

I dont want to mess around too much ...

I was recently hit with some randomware that left a lot of my files encrypted. Trying to recover the original files using Photorec. Currently booting into Ubuntu off of the latest live CD.

I can browse the contents of the 2TB drive with no problem. However, when I start Photorec it shows that the ...