I have an old mac with a dying hfs hdd with failing SMART. I copied 2tb of data on an exfat drive but windows only sees only 3 directories and 80gb. Where’s my other stuff? Now after I did that long copy session that lasted a whole day, the disk died from stress and the mac doesn’t boot anymore. Even if it boots, i don’t think the disk can last another full copy session…

Testdisk can show the data, there’s a way to tell windows that the files are there?

  • @[email protected]OP
    5•7 months ago

    I run chkdsk and it found that 2TB of data! But in 60000 nameless and useless chunks in the FILE.000 directory

    hoping the drive tomorrow can last another day of copying…

    fucking fast boot, lost my data because it’s assuming hard drives don’t change when pc is turn off

    • HubertManne
      5•7 months ago

      my experience with smart, which full disclore is from over a decade ago, is that once it alerts things are pretty fucked.

    • @[email protected]
      3•7 months ago

      Not sure about mac drives but I’d rather do a bit-for-bit image from the drive if possible and work from there. If you find some data has been missing from a regular copy attempt you still can resort tot the image to extraxt it from there.