Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

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The brand and model of my external hard drive is Western Digital 5TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive, Black - WDBPKJ0050BBK-WESN. It is a standard hard drive and not a solid-state drive (SSD). So, I don't believe TRIM applies in this situation. Of course, I could be wrong. Could ...

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Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.

Just to be clear. I am trying to avoid using the original external hard drive as much as possible. Of course, if I make another image then the hard drive will be used. If I recall correctly, it took about 1 day and 14 hours to make an image of a 5 ...

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I made the image using R-Studio. You could be correct in that my drive may have dropped offline at some point and the image may not be complete. If you don't mind my asking, how can I tell if my image is complete?

If it isn't complete, I can make another image using R-Studio Because I have ...

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Thanks for the suggestion. If I recall correctly, when I opened any file in the hexadecimal editor, it showed all zeroes. Give me a few days to research this and to verify this. The scan was done on an image and there was only one partition on the original hard drive from which the scan was ...

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I am writing for some help. Any help is most appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sorry in advance for the length of my message but I didn't want to leave anything out.

I had accidentally deleted files on my external 5 TB hard drive (not a solid-state drive). The file system is NTFS. There is ...