I copied 2TB of data on an exfat disk from a dying Mac. Then on Windows this data is (almost) missing(discuss.tchncs.de)

posted 7 months ago

Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de

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I have an old mac with a dying hfs hdd with failing SMART. I copied 2tb of data on an exfat drive but windows only sees only 3 directories and 80gb. Where’s my other stuff? Now after I did that long copy session that lasted a whole day, the disk died from stress and the mac doesn’t boot anymore. Even if it boots, i don’t think the disk can last another full copy session…

Testdisk can show the data, there’s a way to tell windows that the files are there?

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ObiWahn@feddit.de

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7 months ago

Not sure about mac drives but I’d rather do a bit-for-bit image from the drive if possible and work from there. If you find some data has been missing from a regular copy attempt you still can resort tot the image to extraxt it from there.

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