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Thank you Christophe!

Yes, I understand there are limitations to what any tool can do. I'm out of storage to try the Photorec at this point.

With time came recollection about how I got here. I think the drive with the best likelihood for recovery is the 2TB backup since little to nothing should ...

Photorec ran about 3 hours and had about 8 to go when it ended with a core dump. Is there a log I can grab?

Also, I just realized two most important files I am looking for were at least a couple hundred megabytes each, and thus likely highly fragmented. Would that mean photorec would not work, and ...

Good day CJ. Thanks for the help.

I started what you said, but was prompted if I wanted to try to unformat a FAT file system. I said no for now and it will run all day while I'm at work. Should I try again?

Also, I noticed some file types are not in the list. Of critical importance of the top of ...

Here's the deeper search of the laptop 500GB. I'm trying to get files/partitions back from the original Dell factory partitions. Looks like a mess, but I'm not sure. Help?

I don't remember (I was barely awake) what I ran on the external drive, but it seems to have ended abnormally. Any advice on what to do next with this drive? Thanks in advance!

Here's the full log:

Thu Mar 22 05:17:12 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009 ...

Hello!

I backed up my 500GB laptop drive last weekend and reformatted it and started to repartition it so I could dual-boot. Somewhere in there, I also did the same to the 2TB external drive containing the backup of the laptop drive.

I used testdisk to grab the laptop drive files back, but didn't ...