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Thanks very much for your suggestions !
I'm mulling them over.
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recipe 2:
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Copy the partitions from your broken source disk to the new disk target.
Your software should ask you for the size of each target volume/partition.

Interesting idea. But wouldn't any partitioning or backup ...

Some information regarding the "MBR"-label: The Microsoft Reserved Partition is not the MBR.

Yes, I am aware of that - good catch - but it was just easier to put that in the diagram as such, when most people wouldn't notice the difference, rather than spelling out the details of the first CHS 0,0 ...

In other words you say: "In case of recovery success I might donate."

No, actually "in other words" would not be a correct assumption. I'm sorry to hear that you arrived at that inference, as it's not what I was thinking.
It's just that I've used all kinds of free software, and although sometimes ...

Continuing w/ screenshot and logfile . . .
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7 - 50A-TestDisk - pre-Write.png
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So as I wrote above in the #7 screenshot :
No write was completed (meaning I didn't do it), and
How do I keep the Extended Partition 11742 -96-3 -- 62183-251-20 from overlapping (starting before) the end of 2nd [OS ...

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* * Hold on . . . one more Screenshot and the logfile . . .

I'm trying to recover my [DATA] 3rd partition.

My System : Win10-Pro, 500GB ADATA SU-800 SSD drive, w/ MBR boot sector

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History so far :
I was resizing partitions offline so as to make room for some Windows updates, when I eventually made a ...

Hmm, Ok.
I'm thinking the problem has something to do with MBR or partition tables, or disk geometry.
I thought perhaps TestDisk, being what it is, could find what's wrong with those areas of the disk, and perhaps reset and write correct information.
It does have way to input disk geometry, but that ...

This is not particularly important as I'm just trying to wipe a drive to donate or recycle it.

But I have a 120GB Seagate IDE drive that's reporting as only 31GB.
Reporting, that is, by Testdisk and any Windows program or Linux partitioning app I've tried.

I think the problem has to do with a ...

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could take a quick look at my Testdisk logs for Analyse, Quick Search and Deeper Search.
I've actually solved the problem but am hoping for a little clarification.

This a friend's Fujitsu drive on which he was running Debian Linux. Something went wrong and he couldn't ...

Ok, many thanks for your explanation - I see how it works now.

Are a couple more questions ok ?

1. Kind of picky question . . . sometimes a result of Analyse, etc. shows an error message in the middle of the result list of partitions. I can't figure out . . . does that refer to the line above it ...