How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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by cgrenier » 09 Sep 2018, 07:34
Have you tried "mount" in macOS Disk Utility ?
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by hackernews » 10 Sep 2018, 01:10
Thanks for the reply! The mount button doesn't do anything and when I disconnect and connect the external hard drive, I get this
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by hackernews » 10 Sep 2018, 01:13
I was able to see that most of the files are recoverable using disk recovery software but filenames and the directory structure is really important for me as you can imagine!
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by cgrenier » 14 Sep 2018, 05:34
What is the result of "sudo fsck /dev/disk2s2" ? If it fixes something, run it several times until everything is ok or nothing more can be fixed.
Try it for disk2s3 and disk2s4 too.
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