Originally Posted by
anon
For the most part. Everything is there, but around 10% of files are partially or completely damaged. I have to use a SHA-1 hash list to identify what's good and what's not, deal with the latter, somehow attempt to validate a small set of files that didn't have hashes, then decide how I'm going to sort everything from here onwards (right now it's on five different disks of 500 GB each).
It's sort of bittersweet since not all damaged files may be recoverable, my former 4 TB disk is broken and out of warranty, and despite help from my family, this was a significant financial setback... but much, much better than losing everything. Not to mention, a lesson learned.