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OK, well I left it running but it doesn't seem to have made much progress:

PhotoRec 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, August 2016
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB (RO) - ULT-Best YLT-D0002. HDD
Partition Start End Size in ...

Hi,

I downloaded the PhotoRec 7.1 beta the other day and have been running it against a 500GB Seagate SSHD. It seemed to be working fine to start with, but now appears to have hung:

PhotoRec 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, August 2016
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www ...

BTW, reading another website forum, I might have been able to recover the partitions using the Linux parted command, which might be of use to someone else. For example, to recover the Xubuntu 14.04.1 (sda13) I should have been able to do the following (numbers taken from my second post):

sudo ...

Hi Fiona,

Thanks for taking a look at this. I'll respond to some of the points you raise:

- Deleting and re-creating partitions (in cfdisk) is how I managed to recover half a dozen lost partitions, so it was helpful! It's also non-destructive (as far as data goes), so at the very least it's not ...

No experts with any suggestions???

I've now used cfdisk to delete all of the partitions between Knoppix 7.2.0 (sda11) and PCLinuxOS Installer (sda19) and then created a single logical partition in that free space which I analysed using R-Studio: it found all of the installed systems in that space ...

OK, well without going into too much detail, I have a laptop with a 320GB SATA drive which I have been using to evaluate a number of Linux distros. Rather foolishly, I used Disk Manager in Windows XP to try to create another logical partition and it completely borked the partition information. I ...