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I got off ubuntu becuse it was not helping and maybe making the problem worse. Then i tried SparkyLinux Repair CD which included Teskdisk, and this and your forum gave some idea of what to try next.

But SparkyLinux seems to have a problem in that after some time running, the screen goes black and ...

I can see that. Go deep and lots of different superblocks show up on the drive, and they don't work together and even interlace like you said. I use different partition names when I delete and recreate a partition, so the labels appear in square brackes on the right, and I can tell that way which ...

A drive thatis reported as being damaged does not mean it is physically damage, though that can happen, especially if it is mechanical an mobile. What the damage is is normally an inconsistency in information about the drive, as different recirds are kept of the number of sectors, their type, their ...

You have stumbled on LVM, a new disk management hatched up to create logical partitons that can be scaled up and down to fit a need. I originallu expected it was from MS, but no, it's a new idea for Linux. It eats up a bit of drive space, which some don't mind, but I prefer ext4 which I control. If ...

dd does cloning, meaning it expects everything to match up on a sector-by-sector basis. If you just waht to copy files, a much better choice is rsync, available for most operating systems. It maintains the most recent update if two files have the same name in the same folder for synchronization ...

I;m not an expert in this area, but I am trained to look for discrepancies. This seems to be one here when you sat "Can't create file <file path & name> No such file or directory" for each file it attempts to copy.

The discrepance is it says "create". that would be your target or destination, not ...

This is not a hoax or a joke. There is apparently at ;east one trigger for a catastrophic event in Linux, which I stumbled upon by chance. A bad chance as it happened, as every effort to offset what followed failed miserably. I posted the history of my efforts, and the initial casue as file 100.txt ...