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The test disk log performed for 3 days on original 3TB drive is 20gb in length.
How do I upload that to this forum for diagnosis???


Christmas interruption in the cloning and test disk on clone. Will post asap. Just wondering if diagnosis on original test disk can help.

tia

R

I am now feeling useless - minimal coding skills - but I can usually figure things out...
Have terminal up
used diskutil to figure out my drives names...
old corrupt 3tb drive i disk3 (partition disk3s1
new 3tb drive (and newly formatted GUID / etc ... is disk2 (disk2s2 is the 3tb partition, disk2s1 ...

Thank you

Thank you.
Cloning in progress.

I did run the test disk on the original drive. Didn't make any changes though.
The test disk took 3 days on the drive and the log file is 20gb long.
Can I post that long of a file on the forum? Do you want to see it? What's the next step.

Yes, will run test disk on ...

Hello. Thanks for the help in advance.
Drive having problems...is Seagate 3TB external backup drive
Used on older iMacs 2007 intel, then MacBook Late 2011 i7-2.8 model, and now iMac 2008 intel
Purchased as a PC drive - but never used on PC
Immediately formatted with macs - disc utility with 1 ...