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Problem description: I have the HDD out of my old Macbook Pro. I just want to recover the music and photos that were on it. I switched time machine off on it years ago so I don't think I can boot from it on this new macbook. Attempted fixes: I put the HDD inside a NexStar hard drive case and have ran Disk Utility on it. It verifies then when I click repair it sits there forever doing nothing then just spazzes out and says it can't repair. I also tried transferring all the data onto another hard drive using Disk Utility but this didn't work either, Recent changes: N/A -- Operating system: Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 System specs: The hard drive I want to recover the data off is what you see in the below pic  Location: Australia I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes All I want to do is just pull the music and photos off it. I'm sure there's a way.... help goons? Thanks in advance.
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May 17, 2015 03:03
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Can't you just mount the drive as an external using the case and browse it using the Finder? Is it not mounting when you have it attached using the external housing? Nah it doesn't show up as a drive In Disk Utility the hard drive shows up as solid black text but the partitioned part that holds all the data shows up as greyed out text. Like disk utility says that everything's fine, like it's readable, journaled etc until I do the repair and then it just fucks out and says it can't be repaired. I'm sure there's a way to get the stuff off it I just don't have the means or knowledge to do it. Sludge Tank fucked around with this message at 07:57 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 07:54
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No. Nothing like that to my knowledge. Just running it as normal. All the tunes and images I want are just stored in music folder.
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May 21, 2015 08:10
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I tried option-booting and it did nothing. Black screen. Err I don't know what version of OSX the last one was I think it may have been Lion or Snow Leopard or whatever that was. I broke the computer in January and I think the last time I updated the software would have been maybe November or perhaps even like October. I'm not sure what SMART data is but here is what it says when I click "Info" Name : disk4s2 Type : Partition Disk Identifier : disk4s2 Mount Point : Not mounted File System : Mac OS Extended Connection Bus : USB Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14 Writable : Yes Capacity : 499.25 GB (499 248 103 424 Bytes) Owners Enabled : No Can Turn Owners Off : Yes Can Be Formatted : Yes Bootable : Yes Supports Journaling : Yes Journaled : No Disk Number : 4 Partition Number : 2
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May 21, 2015 08:46
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I am the only one with a mac in my house... but yes I have access to other computers. No I don't have Linux CD anywhere handy.
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May 21, 2015 09:12
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Also thankyou for taking the time to help me.
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May 21, 2015 09:13
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Thanks heaps for your help buddy. I'll fiddle around with it in the interim and see what I can do... really frustrating. Surely it shouldn't be this hard. And yeah I'll format it and use it as an external afterwards. Can always do with more storage. Thanks again
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May 21, 2015 13:30
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