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Where to Begin....
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- Post a follow up with a "Thank you" or "This worked!"
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jackeebleu
- Posts: 3
- Joined: 29 Oct 2013, 01:44
Where to Begin....
So a few weeks ago, I started receiving errors like this on my Mac's external USB 3GB drive, it stores all my music and photos.
Immediately, I ran Disk Utility which found myriad permission errors but advised all was well with the drive. Alerts kept firing until one day the drive just wouldn't mount at all. I stumbled across Testdisk and was advised that run if via terminal. Did that. After a few hours, received an alert that there was 0 space on my boot drive, even though I launched it from another external 1.5TB drive. I delete the 30GB log file, and rerun analyze with no log file. I get this:
4 days later, I receive the following:
If the partitions can't be recovered, what do/can I do now?
Immediately, I ran Disk Utility which found myriad permission errors but advised all was well with the drive. Alerts kept firing until one day the drive just wouldn't mount at all. I stumbled across Testdisk and was advised that run if via terminal. Did that. After a few hours, received an alert that there was 0 space on my boot drive, even though I launched it from another external 1.5TB drive. I delete the 30GB log file, and rerun analyze with no log file. I get this:
4 days later, I receive the following:
If the partitions can't be recovered, what do/can I do now?
Re: Where to Begin....
Some Info about a diagnose on Mac;
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/OS_Notes ... 28Intel.29
Please not: pdisk is not compatible to Intel-Mac.
If you receive read errors, you should clone your disk.
But you can try PhotoRec to recover yoiur photos and music.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
If you don't like to recover unnecessary files, you can use the menu File Opt in Photorec.
Pressing s desects all filte types.
So you can select only those file typed where you which to recover.
I have no idea, what kind of file system you have had before.
Has it been FAT32 or HFS+?
If sectors are physically bad, your disk should be replaced.
Fiona
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/OS_Notes ... 28Intel.29
Please not: pdisk is not compatible to Intel-Mac.
If you receive read errors, you should clone your disk.
But you can try PhotoRec to recover yoiur photos and music.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
If you don't like to recover unnecessary files, you can use the menu File Opt in Photorec.
Pressing s desects all filte types.
So you can select only those file typed where you which to recover.
I have no idea, what kind of file system you have had before.
Has it been FAT32 or HFS+?
If sectors are physically bad, your disk should be replaced.
Fiona
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jackeebleu
- Posts: 3
- Joined: 29 Oct 2013, 01:44
Re: Where to Begin....
It was shipped HFS+. I've formatted an old laptop as Ubuntu and am running the tool again. It's moving a ton faster. I'll see what it does under this version.