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update: I am getting another fresh HD to image this bad HD (it's probably only getting worse and worse). I will then try and recover the partitions with eg TestDisk and if this fails, I'll try Photorec again but with the current WiP version.

Photorec has been running for 1 week now. It has retrieved only 13 files. Is this expected behaviour?

Is there any value (or problem) with abandoning this run and trying again with the latest version of Photorec?

Thanks in advance for advice

After 3 false starts where a few hundred files were recovered successfully but space ran out (I was recovering to a smaller disk), my current recovery pass has been running for >120h and has retrieved 9 files and is on the first pass. That's about 1 a day.

Photorec seems to be retrieving a very ...

Merci Christophe

The trouble was with permissions. I was trying to use the root of a completely blank (but formatted) drive, which Photorec didn't seem to like. To get around this this, all I did was create a "recup" directory and data started being written. I have another issue now, but will write ...

I have a 2TB drive with bad sectors & I am recovering via Photorec to a new 3TB HD.

This new HD is mounted and running fine. However, files are not recovering to it (I am asked to choose a new location after a pass). If I choose an existing smaller partition on another HD, some files get recovered ...