Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

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fast666
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Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

#1 Post by fast666 »

As it was described already above Photorec doesn't see my 1T HDD on my iMac 2017 and shows only MacOs SSD partition. Really hoping on your help guys, thank in advance.
I have installed the brew and the program itself through it as well as I have the admin rights, but maybe I have done something wrong idk.

PhotoRec 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org

PhotoRec is free software, and
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
>Disk /dev/disk0 - 28 GB / 26 GiB (RO)
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 28 GB / 26 GiB (RO)

>[Proceed ] [ Quit ]

Note:
Disk capacity must be correctly detected for a successful recovery.
If a disk listed above has an incorrect size, check HD jumper settings and BIOS
detection, and install the latest OS patches and disk drivers.

recuperation
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Joined: 04 Jan 2019, 09:48
Location: Hannover, Deutschland (Germany, Allemagne)

Re: Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

#2 Post by recuperation »

Does your Mac see the hard disk drive as a device at least?

fast666
Posts: 3
Joined: 29 Mar 2022, 09:46

Re: Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

#3 Post by fast666 »

yes it does

recuperation
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Re: Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

#4 Post by recuperation »

How does Testdisk and Photorec react when connecting your drive to a Windows machine?
Any results?

fast666
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Re: Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

#5 Post by fast666 »

I don't have any idea actually, because this actual hdd is embedded in the computer itself and I can't remove it without taking off the screen, there is an option to emulate this drive in so called "target disk mode" which actually just gonna convert a hdd to the basic storage drive, accessible through the thunderbolt cable which connected to another computer.

recuperation
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Joined: 04 Jan 2019, 09:48
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Re: Photorec doesn't see my HDD and shows only MacOs partition.

#6 Post by recuperation »

fast666 wrote: 29 Mar 2022, 09:54 As it was described already above Photorec doesn't see my 1T HDD on my iMac 2017 and shows only MacOs SSD partition. Really hoping on your help guys, thank in advance.
I have installed the brew and the program itself through it as well as I have the admin rights, but maybe I have done something wrong idk.

PhotoRec 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org

PhotoRec is free software, and
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
>Disk /dev/disk0 - 28 GB / 26 GiB (RO)
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 28 GB / 26 GiB (RO)


>[Proceed ] [ Quit ]

Note:
Disk capacity must be correctly detected for a successful recovery.
If a disk listed above has an incorrect size, check HD jumper settings and BIOS
detection, and install the latest OS patches and disk drivers.
I dont know what "idk" means.
I don't know why your disk size is not recognized properly and have no idea what to do know.

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