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OK, I got worried so I stopped 'Pass 0' (still at 0/10 headers found):

PhotoRec 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB (RO) - ASMT 2105
Partition Start End Size in sectors
P Unknown 0 0 1 ...

I'm in the middle of a photorec recovery session (16h and counting) from a damaged hard-disk and 'Pass 0' hasn't finished yet.

PhotoRec 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB (RO) - ASMT ...

Does photorec support recovering of AAC files ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding )? This Apple audio format often comes with .m4a or .aac or .mp4 extensions. I searched on the online list of formats ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec ) but couldn't ...

I need to recover 'audio' file formats from iTunes on a damaged Mac OS X disk. The problem is that the file formats listed within photorec do not coincide perfectly with those listed on the website ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec ).

For instance, the website ...

You may consider other solutions to read damaged CDs, such as 'readcd' from 'Cdrtools' or 'ddrescue' from 'gddrescue'. See this relevant thread: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... 272#106272.

The purpose of testing Rebuild BS makes only sense if the extrapolated boot sector is different to the current one.
It might be possible that copying gets improved.

After several hours 'Rebuild BS' finished and the extrapolated boot sector was indeed different. Unfortunately, it didn't improve ...

Hello
Thanks for the speedy reply.

Your partition table looks ok, so there is nothing to do.

At least some good news.


Would you like to copy/backup important files first?
I tried to do so, but failed. First I tried with Linux and Thunar, and it did work for some files, but for many others ...

Yet another update. Now accessing Advanced > Boot I get the following screen:
TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 ...

To complete the original post. When using 'testdisk' I get the following screens. Immediately after hitting the 'analyse' button I am getting this:

Disk /dev/sdb - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors

1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 38912 254 ...

Hello
I am trying to fix the harddisk of a friend and I am at a loss. The disk is:

root@liv-laptop:/home/liv/Build/ppa/midori# fdisk -l

[..]

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size ...