Shout out to TestDisk

I have a ~1 year old, lightly used, Western Digital WD_Black external hard drive. It currently has two 2TB FAT32 partitions (I needed to get some footage off an embedded security camera system), only one of which was accessible. Windows couldn't fix it, various Mac systems (Lion, High Sierra, Big Sur) couldn't, either. Neither could Linux, natively. But TestDisk, running on my MacBook (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS), is currently recovering files off of the damaged partition, very successfully so far:

 Credit where due, I found this amazing, awesome app through this answer on askubuntu.

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