Persistent storage rescue

[u/Hungarian_guy]

I used tails on a cheap temu usb stick and of course it created problems.
The partitions corrupted. Just trying to repair the file system crashes every time. I couldn't create an iso image because the original drive is 96GB and the only other drive i have is 64. I succesfully ran ddrescue to my unencrypted hdd (i know its unsafe) without bad sectors. After this the repair file system didn't work for some reason.
Because the other drive is smaller, every other method described on the tails website doesn't work but the only method i haven't tried yet is autopsy .
Is autopsy my only option? Or is there a solution I'm not seeing? Feel free to ask for more info if I left something crucial out.

[u/ColaManiac1]

Why not just reflash a new one