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A friend of mine has a "MyBook" portable HDD full of valuable photos, and other stuff.
He lent it to a friend of his and when he got it back he was not able to open it on his windows PC so he asked me for help.
When I got my hands the HDD, the first thing I did was to connect it to my Ubuntu machine.
To my surprise the HDD was readable. The thing is that the disk had 133MB worth of Time machine configuration files for a MacBook pro.
So, i'm thinking that this friend formatted the drive accidentally to HFS.
Is there any chance of recovering the info? Any idea on what program I should Use?
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Give it a shot and see if it can see the files from the old partition.
I solved the problem yesterday by using a really cool program called PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec.
It comes with another program called TestDisk which I tried first with no success.
The minute a started using Photorec, it started dumping all the recovered data into a folder I specified. The only problem is that this person had 150+ GBs worth of data and that is about the size of my entire HDD of my PC.
I told this to my friend and he will buy an extra HDD to dump all the info there.
What Im thinking is that after recovering all that info, I will try to repair the FAT32 partition as the primary partition (which can be done with TestDisk) and see what happens.
If I get lucky, all the data will become visible and readable by my friends computer.
The biggest issue I have had with similar software in the past is that I had to search through many years worth of data, does this software have any sorting capabilities to help you recover specified data?
Another issue is that it doesn't recover the file names so at the end of the process you end up with a bunch of folders with 500 files each. Each file will have a crazy file name.
As soon as I get my hands on the new HDD to dump the data on, I will start working on it and will report back my experience on that regards.
then try to recover all files that erased on that hdd, and after i will reformat to ubuntu so my brother will force to obey his great Older brother that loves ubuntu Linux.
:P :P :P
If that is what happened, I don't see any way to get anything better than all the files with random filenames.