>STATUS
TWO IMAGING ROUTES CLOSED BY EVIDENCE // NO SUCCESSFUL CLONE DECLARED // SOURCE MEDIA PRESERVED // RECOVERY REMAINS OPEN. RAW ARTIFACTS, DEVICE IDENTIFIERS, FILESYSTEM IDENTIFIERS, AND LOCAL PATHS REMAIN OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC RECORD.
>SOURCE BOUNDARY
FIELD CHRONOLOGY CONTAINS MORE THAN ONE EXTERNALLY ATTACHED WD RED STATE. A REUSED OPERATING-SYSTEM DEVICE NUMBER IS NOT PHYSICAL IDENTITY. THE WHOLE-DISK ATTEMPT AND LATER EXT4 INSPECTION ARE NOT MERGED INTO ONE SOURCE CLAIM. EVERY SOURCE AND TARGET MUST BE RE-IDENTIFIED FROM LIVE HARDWARE FACTS BEFORE ACTION.
>WHOLE-DISK ROUTE
APPROXIMATELY 1.996 TB TRANSFERRED BEFORE SOURCE AND TARGET DEVICES BECAME UNAVAILABLE. THE COPY PROCESS RETURNED A DEVICE ERROR AND EXIT STATUS 1. THE BYTE COUNT IS RETAINED AS PROGRESS EVIDENCE, NOT ACCEPTED AS A COMPLETED OR VERIFIED CLONE.
>EXT4 ROUTE
A SEPARATELY IDENTIFIED EXT4 SOURCE WAS INSPECTED READ-ONLY. ITS SUPERBLOCK REPORTED APPROXIMATELY 1.71 TB USED, BUT INODE TRAVERSAL REFERENCED APPROXIMATELY 3.84 TB. THE USED-BLOCK IMAGE COULD NOT FIT THE BOUNDED 2 TB DESTINATION AND WAS STOPPED BEFORE DESTINATION EXHAUSTION.
>WHAT HELD
SOURCE WRITES WITHHELD // CONFIRMED TARGET BOUNDARY MAINTAINED // ADJACENT VERIFIED ARCHIVE VOLUME LEFT UNALTERED // INCOMPLETE OUTPUT NOT PROMOTED AS AN ARCHIVE COPY. DESTRUCTIVE WORK DID NOT EXPAND WHEN THE PREFERRED ROUTES FAILED.
>VERIFICATION STANDARD
A TRANSFER COUNTER PROVES BYTES MOVED. RECOVERY ACCEPTANCE REQUIRES A SUCCESSFUL PROCESS EXIT // POSITIVE SOURCE AND TARGET IDENTITY // DESTINATION INSPECTION // EXPECTED FILE COUNTS AND READABLE SAMPLES // MANIFEST OR CHECKSUM COMPARISON // CONFIRMATION THAT PROTECTED ADJACENT STORAGE WAS NOT ALTERED.
>NEXT ROUTE
EXPOSE THE EXT4 DIRECTORY TREE WITHOUT JOURNAL REPLAY // COPY ONLY REACHABLE FILES TO A SUFFICIENT DESTINATION // CAPTURE FILESYSTEM METADATA AS A SEPARATE ARTIFACT. RECONFIRM PHYSICAL SOURCE, DESTINATION, MOUNT STATE, FREE CAPACITY, AND WRITE BOUNDARY FROM LIVE EVIDENCE BEFORE THE NEXT COMMAND.
>ASSESSMENT
RECOVERY IS NOT COMPLETE. THE SOURCES STILL EXIST // FAILED ROUTES ARE DOCUMENTED // THE NEXT METHOD HAS A SMALLER FAILURE SURFACE. THE COUNTER IS NOT THE COPY.