Choose an external HD as recovery destination in PhotoRec 7.1

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Choose an external HD as recovery destination in PhotoRec 7.1

#1 Post by Deleted User 10889 »

Hi All,

Situation:
An external 4TB HFS+ HD has been accidentally been formatted.
There is an external 5TB HFS+ HD available/connected to copy the recovered data to.

The source and the format is chosen.

<Terminal/Command Prompt>
2 P Mac HFS 4 199 10 60798 31 49 976645066 [4TB_DeskExtern]

To recover lost files, PhotoRec needs to know the filesystem type where the
file were stored:
[ ext2/ext3 ] ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
>[ Other ] FAT/NTFS/HFS+/ReiserFS/... <<------------- chosen

</Terminal/Command Prompt>

After continuing the only destination offered for the recovered data is the home folder of the current user on Mac and the folder were photorec_win.exe is located on Windows.
The offered destinations just don't have enough space to take all the recovered files, :|

Both hard drives are NOT mounted on Mac and not shown on Windows.

Both drives have the marker "(RO)" - Read Only I presume:
<Command Prompt>
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
>Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB (RO) - ST31000528AS
Disk /dev/sdb - 160 GB / 149 GiB (RO) - ST9160301AS
Disk /dev/sdc - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB (RO) - Seagate Expansion Desk <<----------------
Disk /dev/sdd - 5000 GB / 4657 GiB (RO) - WD Elements 107C <<----------------
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB (RO) - Seagate Expansion Desk <<----------------
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive3 - 5000 GB / 4657 GiB (RO) - WD Elements 107C <<----------------
</Command Prompt>

Specs of the used computers
Mac:
MBP 17" Dual Core i7, 8GB RAM, OS: El Capitan

Windows:
Intel Pentium, 16GB RAM, OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit

PhotoRec version: 7.1

How can I get the external 5TB HD to be the destination of the recovery effort?

Thank you for any help.

Cheers
MacSeal

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Re: Choose an external HD as recovery destination in PhotoRec 7.1

#2 Post by cgrenier »

When asked for the destination press the left arrow key until you get your external drive listed.
If it doesn't work, copy testdisk-7.1-WIP directory to your external disk and run it from there.

Deleted User 10889

Re: Choose an external HD as recovery destination in PhotoRec 7.1

#3 Post by Deleted User 10889 »

cgrenier wrote: 05 Mar 2019, 07:22 When asked for the destination press the left arrow key until you get your external drive listed.
Thanks for that - it worked.

REMARK: If PhotoRec is used under OSX/macOS the destination drive has to be mounted before it can be used by PhotoRec.

Cheers
MacSeal

PS: Recovering is running now for about 5 hours with another 200+ hours to go...

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