That’s how you can recover data from your Mac hard drive in a Windows machine. All recovered files are saved under “recup_dir.x” directories.Īnd if you navigate further you can find recovered files inside each directory. Here you will find all the files it was able to discover and recover. Next, you will get options as to where you want to save the recovered files. Launch the app and we are prompt for the same Window again, here choose the selected disk.
It finds not only photos but any files that can recover as well. For Windows, it should be named as “photorec_win.exe”. It comes with TestDisk, located in the same directory as TestDisk. We are going to proceed with the second option to use PhotoRec to attempt to recover some of the files on the disk. 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. Unfortunately, TestDisk wasn’t able to read what’s inside any of the partitions it has discovered. It should list all the partitions on your hard drive. Next, analyze what’s inside the current partition or search for any lost partitions. Press enter to proceed to the next stage.Ĭhoose “Intel” if you don’t know what your partition table is. For me, it’s the “ Disk /dev/sdd – 1500 GB / 1397 GiB”. If you have successfully connected the hard drive, you should be able to see your hard drive listed above. Choose “Create” to proceed.Īt this stage, you will get prompt to choose which disk you want to recover from. This will launch a separate Window and from there you can interact the selected hard drive with this command line utility. Launch Windows Command Prompt and navigate to the extracted directory. 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. Fortunately, we have a tool called TestDisk that works across platform and supports to read almost any disk formats. 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. Today I am going to show you how to recover a Mac formatted partition from Windows. 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). After diagnosis, it appears the logic board has died. Computer dies for many different reasons, and one of the most common causes of death is because of the hard drive failure. When a computer stopped working, it doesn’t mean all the data are gone nor does it mean all the hardware are useless.