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If you are able to connect the drive directly in SATA on the machine you are using to do the recovery, it would greatly improve.
1- Your chance of success.
2- The speed of the recovery.
3- And remove a layer prone to error (USB2SATA) under heavy stress.
I use these little Sabrent adapters and they are far from what you can get directly on a SATA interface.
That may be a good idea if this takes much too long.
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Yes it did not show any files.
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@jumanji
One question if and when I get to Advanced > Boot > boot sector possibilities and I need to system reboot do I reboot to working pc or reboot to the defective HDD?
This is where Testdisk is stuck at the moment which could be because of the damage to the HDD.
At the moment do you have any software you tried that reported to have Found and Recovered or Marked The Bad blocks your initial disk scan found ?
The first step toward bringing back integrity of a storage support rely on the Physical aspect of the file system. Are the Sectors reliable ?
Since your First Block has popped as containing defective sectors. and multiple other occurred during the scan... Also your Screenshots reports a high level of transfer error. these are mostly caused by inconsistent MFT. and the disk at the moment is purely erratic.
The first part is to Recover or mark all the bad blocks and restore integrity of the disk "Physically" ...
Then you can go to the logical level with Partition / Data / File recovery software.
Does the computer you have to troubleshoot is able to boot in UEFI/CSM ?