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Hello!
After 20 days I have finally managed to make a 100% perfect clone image of a failing drive with ddrescue.
The image file is 3TB. If something goes wrong with the image file, I can't waste another 20 days to build again that image file from the failing drive.
Would you suggest me to make a ...

Hello, I have an external 3TB hard drive I want to clone with ddrescue.
This 3TB drive is formatted with NTFS, GPT. I did only 1 partition, but the GPT by default makes also a small hidden partition of 128Mbyte.
So in Linux with Parted Magic I see the small partition 128MB as dev/sdc1, and the large ...

Ok, so I have a 3TB drive, which takes a lot of time to scan.
For quick scan around 4days, and for deep scan, maybe around 10 days!
If for some reason I have to restart my computer, is there a way I can save the scan progress and resume from were I stopped??
For example, let's say I was quick ...

Hello!
At the moment I am analysing an NTFS drive, I am at 37%, and I have this message:
check_FAT: Bad jump in FAT partition

What that means? Should I worry?? I am 100% sure that my partition is NTFS.
Why do I get such message? Should I clone my drive or not?

For recovering lost partitions on external hard drives (3.5inch), is it important to recover with the external controller or is it irrelevant?
For example, if I have a 3TB external hard drive with USB2, recovering with the USB2 would be super slow.
So to get better speeds, it would be better to ...

So after 3 days, scan is still at 67%!!!
Is this normal?? Why is it soooo slow???? Could it be a mechanical failure?? I don't hear any weird noise (click of death).
Also on HD Sentinel, my hard drive shows up as 100% perfect.
Problematic or weak sectors were not found and there are no spin up or ...

Hello Christophie,
I decided to donate to you a small amount of money if you can help me with salvaging my data.
So I will try to explain everything in detail, and with your guidance I hope you will be able to help me out!

I have a USB 2 media center with an internal hard drive of 3TB. I use that ...

Hello!
I am new here, using for the first time this amazing program called TestDisk.
I am asked by the program to select a media.
But I see the same disk (the 4GB disk) shown here 3 times.
So I am curious, what is the difference between the options

Disk /dev/sdd
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive3
Drive W ...