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If you are using USB 2.0 but have access to 3.0 it is much faster. But there's no way to logically speed up the search - you do not know WHERE those files are so you have to look through the entire drive.

I mean how full was it. More full drives and longer in use drives tend to be more fragmented.

I have a 500 GB 2.5" Hitachi drive from my family member's 2011 Macbook Pro. I have run TestDisk before over the years on FAT and NTFS with no difficulty, but I am kind of at a loss what to try next with this one.

First, the partitions show and appear to be correct in TestDisk. There is a 200MB EFI ...

What was the overall disk use? My guess is that PhotoRec can only find contiguous and not fragmented files.

Strange, my first post was disapproved and the follow up was posted. I am running 7.0 on Windows and hitting the same sector each time. I too must be editing the .ses file in the wrong manner as I can't seem to skip over the problem spot.

I have restarted and resumed a couple of times and it does hang at the same sector each time.