No harddisk found

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alafortanfuni
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No harddisk found

#1 Post by alafortanfuni »

Hello, I want to recover a folder I deleted from my internal harddisk. I have two partitions on my harddisk. The folder I deleted was on the secondary partition. When I run photorec app, terminal window opens and asks me my password. Then it says no hardisk found. If I connect an external drive, photorec sees it. However the folder I want to recover is on my internal harddsik. How can I force photorec see the internal drive?
Thanks.

My System: imac late 2009, macos high sierra v 10.13.3, 2 TB harddisk with two partitions, 1 TB main and 1 TB secondary.
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alafortanfuni
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Re: No harddisk found

#2 Post by alafortanfuni »

I found the solution. Issue is related to version high sierra (v 10.13). Now I can see the internal harddisk. Tried to rescue some files and it worked.
I copy-paste the solution here, in case someone may have been suffering the same problem.

Note: Recover Lost Mac Data under Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra)
Due to macOS High Sierra (macOS 10.13) requirement, Mac users are not allowed an access to the built-in system drive from any apps. Therefore, if you need to restore lost data from the system disk under macOS 10.13, please "disable System Integrity Protection" first.

How to disable "disable System Integrity Protection"? Please follow the steps below.

Step 1: Reboot the Mac and hold down"Command + R" keys simultaneously after you hear the startup chime, this will boot OS X into Recovery Mode.

Step 2: When the "OS X Utilities" screen appears, pull down the "Utilities" menu at the top of the screen instead, and choose "Terminal".

Step 3: In the "Terminal" window, type in "csrutil disable" and press "Enter" then restrart your Mac.

richardd
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Re: No harddisk found

#3 Post by richardd »

Hello,

I'm desperately trying to recover some deleted files (.JPG) and run in to the same problem with my OS Linux Cinnamon.
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Re: No harddisk found

#4 Post by cgrenier »

As explained in https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf , run

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sudo photorec
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As root, you should see all your disks.

richardd
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Re: No harddisk found

#5 Post by richardd »

I tried the sudo photorec but it gave the same result.
Maybe a different suggestion?

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