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If you get this resolved, please post here as I have done the same thing and haven't yet found a solution. If I fix mine I will post my solution here.

So I finally finished up with ddrescue and now I'm running Testdisk on the image. The results I'm getting are kind of odd and I really don't know what to make of them. Here's what it found after a quick scan:

http://i.imgur.com/HtD7ODP.jpg

and then after a deep scan:

http://i.imgur.com/5vfNiql ...

So the results of running ddrescue are looking promising, it's been running for 2.5 days and here's where it's sitting:
http://i.imgur.com/uJ63xftl.jpg

It's a 500gb hard drive and as you can see, the vast majority of it has been recovered. That took less than 12 hours. Since then I'm assuming it ...

I will try this, thank you. I am currently running a quick search on the drive and it's about 4% completed (after an hour or so), is it worth letting that finish or should I kill it and go ahead and clone the drive? Thanks.

I have a laptop hard drive that was running Windows 8 and suddenly stopped working. I hooked it up to a couple different Windows computers using both internal sata connection and an external enclosure, and in both cases the computers slow to a crawl when the hard drive is attached. The disk will ...