Lost partition couldn't find after analyse

[SkuterPL]

Hi,
I have problem with my HDD, because I couldn't find my partition to recovery, in testDisk I see

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, but in disk menager this:

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There is any way to fix my disk without deleting files?

[cgrenier]

If your disk does some unusual noises, a disk head is probably damaged, you should in this case contact a data recovery company.
Otherwise if the problem is due to bad sectors, you should clone the disk to a new empty one using ddrescue from a Linux LiveUSB/LiveDVD as described in https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
Good luck

[SkuterPL]

It's external HDD, but I don't hear any strange noisy, but normally, so in Windows testTidsk I can't do anything else?

[cgrenier]

ddrescue under Linux is far better than dd for windows to clone damaged disk, so you really should boot from a Linux LiveUSB.
It's not so difficult.

[SkuterPL]

I see, I will try this way, but for sure I need 2nd HDD with space of broken drive to clone it?

[SkuterPL]

Hi again,
Finally I bought second HDD on which I want to clone my broken HDD. I opened Ubuntu live and started this commend

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 ddrescue --force /dev/sdb /dev/sdc sdb.log

I had to use FORCE, because without it I cannot start cloning process.

Now it's coping very slow and shows me errors in window of DDRESCUE:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0y5u9po7ojd1 ... qYyFa?dl=0

Here you can see short movie which shows that black hard drive (that's broken) all time LED is enabled, but on the new one (white) is blinking (just like in coping process), so why black one isn't blinking?

I don't know if it's sense wait for cloning with error rate, what is it mean?

Regards,
Tomek