Q. My external hard drive (seagent freeagent goflex 500Gig) doesn't work anymore. everytime i connect it to my macbook it says unreadable (ntfs) and i can't see the files. I think it is corrupted or something. I tried almost every data recovery stuff but nothing just seems to work! There a lot of bad sectors. I just want to know some software that can help me out for mac or something like that before i take it to a store. Please help me, thanks
A. Yeah,all your data is still store on the hard drive and you can recover your data with the help of data recovery software.I used 001 File Recovery to recover data from crahsed hard drive and it worked.You can download it and scan your hard drive for free to preview whether your data can be recovered.
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Secondary Hard drive changed from NTFS to RAW? How do I recover data files?
Q. running vista 32 bit OS. my secondary hard drive suddenly changed from NTFS to RAW. how do I change back to NTFS without losing my data? I really think data recovery sw is not needed somehow the partition got lost and I just need to figure out how to change back to NTFS. please help!
I was able to solve my own issue my running UBUNTU which can read the drive! 5 Stars for me for best answer!
I was able to solve my own issue my running UBUNTU which can read the drive! 5 Stars for me for best answer!
A. You can NOT 'change' from RAW to NTFS w/o losing data. Your data was most probably lost when it somehow went to RAW (which is a VERY rare occurance).
Recovery software is your only hope, and it's HAS to be used before you do ANYTHING to the drive.
I wouldn't trust that drive ever again.
Recovery software is your only hope, and it's HAS to be used before you do ANYTHING to the drive.
I wouldn't trust that drive ever again.
Does OS X Migration Assistant migrate data from an ntfs partition?
Q. I corrupted my HD and had to give it to a data recovery agency. They gave me back my data on an ntfs formatted HD, though the directory structure was preserved. I installed OS X on a new HD. Can I use Migration Assistant to transfer my old files from the ntfs disk or will I have to copy-paste? Will copy-pasting restore the HFS+ metadata or not?
A. the apple answer is probably no, since they are told that they dont support ntfs fully. but in my experience, getting something FROM a ntfs formatted drive TO a mac has never been a problem, its only when you try to save larger files to the device does it have problems. never tried it with migration assistant though
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