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Hi Christophe,

I ran this option you suggested - sudo fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk2s1

Gave me an error. I guess its not good to write or build any btree as it could harm the defected disk.

journal_replay(/dev/disk2s1) returned 22
** /dev/rdisk2s1
Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=16384 ...

Thank you Christophe. Happy New Year 2018!

I'll try your suggestion. I was waiting for the analysis to be complete, and it got done. Here is the final report of the analysis.

Quick question: I guess there is no point going into and doing a deeper search or analysis or for the test disk tool to fix ...

Updating another data point of my test disk run. Now the read error is at a different place.

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/rdisk2s1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525105 sectors
Analyse sector 1017708544 ...

Here is the latest data run from the analyse:

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/rdisk2s1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525105 sectors
Analyse sector 798687232/1953525104: 00%
Read error at 171644838/0/1 (lba ...

Thank you Christophe.

WD is an old one, which is based on DOS_FAT_32 but was recognizable by mac after I converted to mac journal, meaning this has transformed to HFS. Here is the latest data as test disk runs:

Disk /dev/rdisk2s1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525105 sectors
Analyse sector 229605376 ...

Hi,

I have a WD 1 Tera external hard disk. This disk has all of my kids and work documents and is very important for me. Appreciate all your help here. Thanks so much in advance.

What happened?
- Today I was copying my kids pics to this drive, and was done. I tried to eject it in the normally way ...