![]() The bad news is that your core computer are pretty much useless, and the good news is that your data should still be intact (given that’s not an SSD soldered to the motherboard). Today I am going to show you how to recover a Mac formatted partition from Windows. How To Recover Data from HFS/HFS+ partitions on Windowsīecause Mac’s file system is different than Windows, you can’t just plug in the hard drive and read what’s inside with Windows Explorer. Fortunately, we have a tool called TestDisk that works across platform and supports to read almost any disk formats. It’s a bit tricky to use, though, as it’s a command line utility.įirst of all, you need to extract the external hard drive and connect into a USB docker or HDD enclosure or USB to SATA cable so it can be connected to your Windows machine via USB. Launch Windows Command Prompt and navigate to the extracted directory. This will launch a separate Window and from there you can interact the selected hard drive with this command line utility. Choose “Create” to proceed.Īt this stage, you will get prompt to choose which disk you want to recover from. If you have successfully connected the hard drive, you should be able to see your hard drive listed above. Press enter to proceed to the next stage.Ĭhoose “Intel” if you don’t know what your partition table is.įor me, it’s the “ Disk /dev/sdd – 1500 GB / 1397 GiB”. Next, analyze what’s inside the current partition or search for any lost partitions. It should list all the partitions on your hard drive. Unfortunately, TestDisk wasn’t able to read what’s inside any of the partitions it has discovered. There are two options available, either attempting to fix the partition table which means you will perform some write options onto the corrupt disk, or use the companion app that comes with TestDisk, called “ PhotoRec.” Therefore, an in-depth search is required. We are going to proceed with the second option to use PhotoRec to attempt to recover some of the files on the disk. ![]() It comes with TestDisk, located in the same directory as TestDisk. For Windows, it should be named as “photorec_win.exe”. It finds not only photos but any files that can recover as well. ![]() Launch the app and we are prompt for the same Window again, here choose the selected disk. Next, you will get options as to where you want to save the recovered files. Here you will find all the files it was able to discover and recover. All recovered files are saved under “recup_dir.x” directories.Īnd if you navigate further you can find recovered files inside each directory. That’s how you can recover data from your Mac hard drive in a Windows machine. Give it a try the next time when your hard drive crashes. TestDisk is a low-level utility that can bypass all the OS level restrictions and read what’s directly saved on the disk physical cylinder.These’s two tools are great for basic file recovery and easy to use. First I’ll talk about Testdisk, this tool can help find lost partitions that may have been damaged or deleted. The Other PhotoRec, is a great file recovery tool to help find deleted files. #Photorec testdisk windows windows#īut these’s tools are available on are on other platforms too, even windows too! With This tutorial, you learn about using these tools on Debian-based Linux. To install both Testdisk and Photorec on Debian or Ubuntu, open the terminal and use this command. Use arrow keys to select, then press Enter key: Just run “ sudo testdisk” in the terminal. Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter): Then pick your disk device then press proceed to continue. Once you pick your device, in the next menu choose the partition table type. If you don’t know theres a good chance its Intel type if its like a usb stick. But if your computer is newer or has a very big drive(more then 2TB) it will most likely be EFI GPT. TestDisk might also pre-selected with Auto detect. > Analyse current partition structure and search for lost partitions > EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64.) Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done. Here it shows the current partitions available on the drive. ![]() TestDisk 7.If there’s nothing here it means neither it got delete or damage. Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/.)įor more information on how to use, please visit the wiki pages on OPTIONS /log create a testdisk.log file LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information SYNOPSIS testdisk testdisk /version testdisk /list DESCRIPTION TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions Testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions
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