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I have a laptop running Windows 11 with a 512GB SSD disk. The laptop started acting squirrely and then crashed hard. After several failed attempts to reboot, I then tried the usual next steps, Troubleshoot, repair, go back, etc. I then booted to an emergency boot usb drive. All the diagnostic tools on that drive saw the disk but couldn't mount it to attempt a repair or recovery.

I removed the disk and put it into an external USB case and attached it to a different computer. With that computer, I ran TestDisk. TestDisk sees the drive


It also sees the correct partition structure


But when I take the next step and click Quick Search, the analyse process never gets past 00%


I don't need to repair the disk, I've already moved on. I only want to retrieve a handful of files that hadn't made it into my daily backup. Any ideas how I can proceed?

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Whenever you suspekt a storage device to be broken you should check its health using smartmontools

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and depending on the result you might consider using a professional recovery lab or trying to duplicate your device using ddrescue as described in the manual. The idea is to isolate hardware problems from logical problems.
Once you successfully duplicated your device to a healthy one the duplicate only contains logical problems which may or may not allow recovery to certain degrees.

There is no reason for TestDisk to hang when dealing with a healthy device.