Testdisk recovery

Hi everyone, I've been trying for days, and out of frustration I thought I should ask for advice from you guys. Here's my issue: I have this external 500GB HDD that contains very important files. It's formatted to NTFS and has been failing to read/write, shows some bad sectors (forgot how many...

99% sure an SSD of mine is dead. Windows 10 disk management says the drive cannot be read due to a fatal device hardware failure. In Windows 11 it shows up in explorer but gives an I/O device error and disk management claims that its a RAW format with 0 bytes. Tried doing TestDisk and I either...

So I recently deleted my Linux partition on accident, and I found out that Testdisk is able to recover it, so I went ahead and downloaded it and tried to recover the partition. I found the partition listed as "D - Linux", then I changed it to "* - Linux", then chose "write". It then prompted...