One of the best tools for NTFS data recovery is GetDataBack for NTFS - unfortunately it is not freeware (free evaluation software with data...
A fully encrypted TrueCrypt drive does not have an embedded backup header. To mount a system encryption from another PC you have to set the...
The offset is from the beginning of the disk, the command should be as follows: dd bs=1 skip=17408 count=131072 if=/dev/sdb of=./Desktop/header
The last sector of the partition contains the GPT mirror: according to the mirror partition entry at 0x13FBE00 in your 20MB file, the disk had one...
The diagnostic features (for example short test, long test) are readonly: however the last time I have used the tool, advanced features could be...
I really have to search for another tool which is able to detect the LBA overflow: in your case, HD-Sentinel does report anything despite the disk...
It really seems that the LBA overflow is the root cause why you lost your data as the size of your disk is detected wrong in all tools. Did you...
The wrong size detected could also indicate the bug - can you try to make the benchmark with HD Tune? Be careful with this disk, too. Do not...
The described failure and the fact that the disk is now recognized with the wrong size very much sounds like a LBA address overflow: a 32-bit LBA...
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