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Partitions 1&2 recovered OK. But partition 3 Failed
Testdisk originally listed sector length of partition 3 inaccurately/too long(65513064). I changed this because partition is 31.16 GB which 65352416 matches ...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, please.

How is this off topic? I am still trying to repair the partition. Should I post in filesystem repair forum?
Which software is avaialable to repair further?

FSCK did not work*. I used fsck_hfs -fy and also tried fsck -fy but got error:
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
and could not find alternatives.

I started again with a freshly cloned disk image of the faulty drive (using Data Rescue II, they confirmed that it does bit to bit cloning), this time ...

I have tried the GPT option and managed to successfully recover the middle partition (1 of the 3 HFS+ partitions) within TestDisk without having to use pdisk.

Unfortunately the 1st and 3rd partitions were not completely recovered. These partitions are now visible within Disk Utility, listed as ...

I would like to do a test recovery on a copy of damage drive before actual repair of original damaged drive.
Is it possible to clone a damaged drive from within Testdisk?
If yes, what is the step-by-step instructions.

Thanks for your advice. I am now trying the GPT option. So far getting more errors but seems to be finding partitions. It is also listing unexpected partitions "Solaris/home" and states that these cannot be deleted. I shall continue with a deeper search and see what happens.

Hi
I used Data Rescue II to create clone.
I tried both Disk Utility and Data Rescue II to create the image files.

I used TestDisk's recommended/auto selected Apple Map partition option.

What is GPT?

My external hard drive was damaged when using Apple’s Disk Utility to replace a FAT32 partition on the drive. Disk Utility crashed in the middle of the process.
All the data is still on the drive and I am sure it’s the partition map that has been damaged.

There were originally 4 partitions on the ...

Where is the testdisk log file located on a Mac (OS X 5)?